Advanced Random Posts Widget for Blogger

This gadget can display randomly selected posts from your blog. You can choose if you want to show your random posts with thumbnails or without, and you can also set a lot of other options.

With thumbnails or without. Show random posts from specific label or from all blog.

If you have published a lot of posts on your blog, your readers can be hard to find some of older posts, which also could interest them. To make it easier for your visitors, you should install on your blogspot blog a Random Posts Widget, which will display at the sidebar randomly selected posts from your blog, including older ones. This blogger gadget can show random posts with thumbnails or without thumbnails, so you can choose which option fits better to your website. If you want, you can also show with this widget only random posts from specific label instead of all your entries. Decide whether you prefer to show posts with it's excerpts and whether you want to display labels and other info, like number of post's comments, date of publication and author's name. After setting what informations and in which place this widget should show, just click "Add to Blogger" button and Random Posts Gadget will be installed on your blog. You just need to be logged in to your Blogger account when you click the button.

A new, modern version of this widget

You can also use the newer version of this gadget for even more customization options and better performance. We've added all the extra features you asked for, such as loading posts from other blogs and more.

Random Posts Widget For Blogger

Random Posts Blogger Widget's Settings:

Widget's title:
Number of posts: How many random posts should the widget display?	Label: To display random posts from specific label, enter the name of the selected label, or leave the field empty to display random posts from all blog. Value "none" also select all posts from your blog.
Titles of posts:leftcenterrightnone Select the alignment for post titles. Choose "none" if you don't want to show titles at all.	Title size: px This field doesn't matter when "Titles of posts" is set to "none"
Title font:GeorgiaPalatinoTimes New RomanArialArial BlackComic SansImpactLucida SansTahomaTrebuchetVerdanaCourier NewLucida ConsoleInheritThis field doesn't matter when "Titles of posts" is set to "none"	Posts titles color:This field doesn't matter when "Titles of posts" is set to "none"
Font of text:GeorgiaPalatinoTimes New RomanArialArial BlackComic SansImpactLucida SansTahomaTrebuchetVerdanaCourier NewLucida ConsoleInherit	Text color:
Text size: px	Thumbnail:leftrightnone If you want to display a image thumbnail near the post, select where images should be placed ("left" or "right"). Select "none" if you want to show random posts without thumbnails.
Thumbnail size: px This field doesn't matter when "Thumbnail" is set to "none"	Rounding the thumbnail: % This field doesn't matter when "Thumbnail" is set to "none"
No thumbnail: If You want to replace the image which will be displayed when one of your posts would not have it's own thumbnail, enter the url of your image to this field. This field doesn't matter when "Thumbnail" is set to "none"
Post info:leftcenterrightnone Select the alignment for the post information box. In the information box you can display author name, date of publication and number of comments. In the next fields you can check which of this informations you want to show in widget.	Author: Select if the author name should be displayed in post information box.This field doesn't matter when "Post info" is set to "none"
Publication date: Select if the date of publication should be displayed in post information box.This field doesn't matter when "Post info" is set to "none"	Number of comments: Select if the comment counter should be displayed in post information box.This field doesn't matter when "Post info" is set to "none"
Categories:leftcenterrightnone Select the alignment for the pst labels.	Excerpt length: chars If you don't want to display post excerpt at all, set this value to 0.
Border style:soliddotteddashed Choose a border style to separate the displayed posts.	Border width: px Border width. Set "0" if you don't want to display the border at all.

Show Widget Code

Widget Code:

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Widget Code copied

Live preview: You can change the background of the preview to the same as it is on your blog to see how the widget will look on your site

You can also display random posts on the static page of your blog or even in the content of one of your posts, if you want. To do this, click above on Show Widget Code (in the bottom right corner of the widget's settings block), and copy the Widget Code that will appears. Next go to your Blogger Page or Post editor, turn on the HTML mode in editor, and paste the Widget Code in the place where you want to display your random posts 😄