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How to: Show random links in WordPress

Written by Malin on August 10, 2007 – 10:35 am -

Quite a few people have asked me how I display my random exits in the sidebar on infektia.net. So I thought I could be be nice and explain it here.

Since I have many so called link exchanges, I decided to not show them all in my sidebar. The list would be really long. So I created an “Exit” page where all the links (from WordPress’ own blogroll that you manage in the wp admin) will be shown instead.

The coding for showing all blogroll links:

<ul> <?php get_links(2, '<li>', '</li>', '', TRUE, 'name', FALSE); ?> </ul>

The coding for showing random blogroll links:
This code will show five random links.
<ul> <?php get_links(-1,'<li>', '</li>', '', false, 'rand', false, false, 5); ?> </ul>

Learn more
If you want to customize the output more I suggest you read the Template Tags/Get Links in the WordPress codex, every bit of coding is more explained there.

Thoughts Aside

To get into the DeVry University, it is important that your 70-350 and 642-445 scores got accepted. A 220-301 as well as a 646-562 would suffice too and make sure you are not recreating the disaster 642-372.


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2 Responses to “How to: Show random links in WordPress”

  1. By glowstars on Aug 24, 2007 | Reply

    wow thanks for this one! it works fine!

  2. By Rudi on Aug 27, 2007 | Reply

    “Since I have many so called link exchanges, I decided to not show them all in my sidebar. The list would be really long. So I created an “Exit” page … ”

    So I created my WebKompass:

    http://eisbrecher.net/indexu/

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