Wordpress plugin: WP-Single-Random-Post

development March 8th, 2009

My first Wordpress plugin. You can see it in action right above this post under the header image. No, really. Hit refresh. It does exactly what you’d expect: Display a single, random post from your Wordpress database.

I added a bit of code around it to jazz it up, which I plan to incorporate into the 1.1 version, if anybody even shows an interest in the 1.0 version.

Revision 1.02: Removed a blank line that was causing RSS feeds to break.

Download wp-single-random-post.zip

README FILE:

=== Single Random Post ===
Contributors: dcostalis
Donate link: http://www.isthisablog.com/
Tags: random, posts
Requires at least: 2.0
Tested up to: 2.7.1
Stable tag: 1.02

This plugin will allow you to display a single post selected at random from your post database

== Description ==

This plugin will allow you to display a single post selected at random from your post database

There are no bells and no whistles.

== Installation ==

1. Upload `single-random-post.php` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Place `<?php single_random_post(); ?>` in your templates

== Frequently Asked Questions ==

= Why does this even exist? =

Because I had a use for it, and nobody else had made it yet

= Why doesn’t it do more? =

Because there are plenty of plugins that do a lot more, but none that do this little without editing
Download wp-single-random-post.zip

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Dealing with timestamps in WordPress is so fucking fucked.

development April 27th, 2008

While modifying a plugin to work correctly in WP 2.5, I came across this code snippet.

I haven’t had to deal with it myself, but maybe someone else will find it useful, or hilarious as I did. Here’s the code to make timestamps WordPress friendly (apprently):

// Dealing with timestamps in WordPress is so fucking fucked.
$offset = (int) get_option('gmt_offset') * 60 * 60;
$this->post['post_date'] = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', $this->published()
    + $offset);
$this->post['post_modified'] = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s',
    $this->updated() + $offset);
$this->post['post_date_gmt'] = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', $this->
     published());
$this->post['post_modified_gmt'] = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s', $this->
     updated());

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