Wordpress Random Post Feed Plugin?

[cianuro]

Hi guys,
Does anyone know if such a thing exists?

I'm looking for a plugin that will generate a feed that contains a random post on my WordPress blog? (Not just random posts in the sidebar).

Any info would be much appreciated.

[Mittineague]

A quick search gives
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/40818
http://tech-buzz.net/2006/08/14/rand...for-wordpress/
http://www.w-a-s-a-b-i.com/archives/...-posts-plugin/
http://www.skippy.net/blog/2004/05/27/random-posts/

[cianuro]

Thanks but I'm not looking for a random post plugin. I'm looking to create a random post XML FEED. So for example, I can display a random post on another site.

[ses5909]

I haven't heard of a plugin but it doesn't sound like it would be too difficult to make.

[cianuro]

Yup. Looks like I'm going to have to make it myself. You see where I'm going with it though.

[Mittineague]

Depending on if you wanted a full-blown plugin with ACP control and wanted the "random" in addition to the "regular" feeds it looks like you could hack the
wp-atom.php, wp-rss.php, and wp-rss2.php files easliy enough. They all have the line

<?php $items_count = 0; if ($posts) { foreach ($posts as $post) { start_wp(); ?>

You could just change that, or maybe find out where $posts comes from and randomize that.

[cianuro]

Excellent. That's probably the easiest way. Cheers guys. I got what I needed.