A cool random post Blogger addon.

[Mom2dm]

Thanks, that looks cool!

[Sir Almo]

ill try and get it to work later, but it looks awesome

[NathanKP]

Thank you very much.

At this point I have weeded out all the bugs and there are four blogs that I know of using this code at this point so you shouldn't have any trouble. If you do feel free to post your questions, issues, etc right here.

[QuirkyJessi]

Yep, it seems to be working quite well. I still wish Blogger would allow access to more posts for it to pull, but the addon itself is my favorite. <3

Oh, except for the couple times where I've had people point out that, hey, the addon seemed all excited and encouraging....but the post it linked to was about someone dying. Guess I can't ask it for sympathy pulls, huh? lol

[NathanKP]

Oh, except for the couple times where I've had people point out that, hey, the addon seemed all excited and encouraging....but the post it linked to was about someone dying. Guess I can't ask it for sympathy pulls, huh? lol

That's just part of the excitement that results when you have a random feature on your blog!

I have noticed, however, that the addon seems to encourage more page views per visitor. Prior to programming this most visitors to my book review blog only viewed one or two pages, but now they are starting to explore my blog a little more.

[QuirkyJessi]

Yeah, I definitely like the encouragement. And when I happen to go directly to my blog myself (I rarely do in general), even I get caught up in some of the old posts I'd forgotten about.

I know a lot of people view my site via RSS, though. I wonder if I should consider putting it in the posts section itself. Or adding it somewhere in my RSS settings.

[NathanKP]

The code won't show up over RSS, because it has to run on your blog. RSS is like an extension of your blog, but it only contains pieces of it rather than the entire framework.

[QuirkyJessi]

Right, but even just adding a snippet in the footer about having a randomizer or a link to clicky might encourage people to use it more. Anything to pull them to the blog itself is helpful.

[NathanKP]

Okay, I see what you mean. I think there is a way to do that automatically in Feedburner. I was using it for a while, but I didn't like the way it looked or worked.