Comments on: Random File v1.5

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 05 Jan 2010 06:34:55 +0000

v1.5.2 of this plugin has been released

This minor release does the following:

* Add PHPDoc documentation
* Note compatibility with WP 2.9+
* Update copyright date
* Update readme.txt

By: david

david — Sun, 27 Sep 2009 20:54:27 +0000

Actually, I think that it has something to do with “added” content, as I´m having a similar issue with the Comments Rating plugin. When someone votes, the vote count changes… and the “new” HTML used as the output also adds “Page not cached. I reported this to the plugin developer and he fixed it.

By: Mike Berg

Mike Berg — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 02:48:16 +0000

I’m implementing this into a site here:
http://saintbenedictstable.ca/

Randomizing images works great (see small image near top of left sidebar). But I can’t seem to get the text to work. I noticed that your .txt “possibly” requires Apache, so maybe that’s not working for me. I switched it to the .php version include(c2c_random_file('wp-content/random', 'php')); with every possible variation of leading and trailing slashes, and I’m still getting the error you see there. If you paste the path to the file that it says is missing, you’ll see that it is, in fact, there. What am I missing?

Thanks for any help!

By: Scott

Scott — Tue, 22 Sep 2009 18:04:40 +0000

mike: I would imagine there is a plugin that more directly does that very thing. Depending on precisely what you’re going for, you could probably achieve it with this plugin, but it’d be a bit round-about and manual.

david: Interesting; thanks for the report. I’ll investigate the issue.

By: david

david — Sat, 19 Sep 2009 22:08:19 +0000

Is it possible that the new security measures in 2.8.4 generate issues with the plugin?

I noticed a high load after upgrading, and noticed that pages weren´t being cached. Wp Super Cached added “Page not cached. No closing html tag found” on the line prior to executing the call to the random plugin (although the page loads/generates completely). If I remove the line calling the plugin, it works fine, and the page is cached.

By: mike

mike — Sat, 15 Aug 2009 02:59:50 +0000

Can this plugin be used to display random youtube videos?

By: Scott

Scott — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 15:28:59 +0000

It’s true that you generally need to edit a template file to make use of the plugin, which is really how to expose the true flexibility of the plugin. However, I do have widget functionality in mind which may suit you. Keep an eye out for an update to the plugin (though I can’t estimate a release date for it).

By: David Berghouse

David Berghouse — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 02:49:29 +0000

As usual (with respect) you need programming skills to implement these plugins.
Why can they be easily configured via a dialogue box ?
Then the rest of the world can utilise them.

By: Scott

Scott — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 19:17:38 +0000

v1.5.1 of this plugin has been released

This release fixes a missing ‘/’ in the path construction for reftype ‘absolute’.

(Thanks, pingram3541!)

By: pingram3541

pingram3541 — Mon, 20 Jul 2009 01:01:04 +0000

The code was removed probably because of the php tags so here is what should have been included in the previous post for the code in my themes header.php (without the “< ? php” part)

include(c2c_random_file(‘wp-content/random’, ‘txt’, $reftype=’absolute’));