Displaying random messages with a plug-in.

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The default setting for WordPress will display the last post as the first element and so on. This is called reverse chronology. WordPress uses reverse history to ensure that your homepage or blog page always shows the most recent posts.

While that works well, you also need a way to highlight existing posts. One way to do this is to follow a solid internal linking strategy. This will direct visitors to your older posts and help you get more SEO benefits.

Another great way to use your existing posts is to display random australia mobile phone number posts on your sidebar. Compared to internal linking, this will show the full title and other meta information of the articles. This makes it more likely that visitors will be interested in these posts.

Now that you know why it's important to display random posts, let's find out how to do it.


There are several WordPress plugins that allow you to display random messages. Among all these plugins, we especially like the Advance Random Posts Widget plugin . The plugin makes displaying random messages very simple.



As you can guess from the name, this plugin will create a custom widget on your website. After you install and activate the plugin, you will find the widget in the Appearance -> Widgets page.



Drag the widget to the desired location. You will find several configuration options. These allow you to define the title, title URL, add a custom CSS class, or add HTML code or custom text before or after random posts. In the "Posts" section, you can choose the number of posts to be displayed, the type of content and so on.