Comments on: Random File v1.5

By: Chris

Chris — Mon, 14 Jun 2010 23:02:12 +0000

Doesn’t seem to work in WP 2.9.2

By: NoMad

NoMad — Mon, 17 May 2010 15:49:26 +0000

Scott, thank you for this plugin and all your work.
I would like to use the “random file” to randomly change the background image on my WordPress site…
At the moment I have in the style.css:
body {background:#000 url(images/bodybg.jpg) top center no-repeat fixed; font-family:Arial, sans-serif; text-align:center; padding-bottom:20px; text-shadow:0 0 4px #444;}
How can I implement your code into the actual url(images/bodybg.jpg) so there is a random image displayed instead?
Sorry if this is a trivial question, but I am new at this and it seems that your code needs to be inserted into a template file, so I don’t know exactly how to call the function into the style.css file…
Thank you very much in advance for your help

By: negs

negs — Mon, 15 Feb 2010 01:54:12 +0000

Hi…. I really like this plugin. Very easy to use.

Is there a way to retrieve more than one random file at a time? So, if I wanted to pull three random text files from a directory of many text files, is that possible? I guess the caveat is that I want to ensure that I don’t use the same file twice on a single page load. Otherwise, I’d just call the function 3 times.

Thanks.

By: Heinrich M

Heinrich M — Mon, 11 Jan 2010 20:55:42 +0000

Dear Scott,

Than you for the great plugin!

I would like to ask if it would be possible for you to make a enhancement to the plugin.
It would be simply fantastic if this plugin also could interpret (run) PHP code.

Regards

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:
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?