How To Add Random Posts Widget For Blogger Blog

This widget can definitely bring some excitement to your blogger powered blog. Letting your readers surf your blog to the fullest extent by creating a link to a random post in your blog's sidebar.

Adding a Random posts widget is very easy...
Simply log in to Blogger, go to Layout, click on "Add a Gadget", and select it as "HTML/JavaScript" type.



And finally paste this code in to it:

<script type="text/javascript">

var randarray = new Array();var l=0;var flag;

var numofpost=8;function randomposts(json){

var total = parseInt(json.feed.openSearch$totalResults.$t,10);

for(i=0;i < numofpost;){flag=0;randarray.length=numofpost;l=Math.floor(Math.random()*total);for(j in randarray){if(l==randarray[j]){ flag=1;}}

if(flag==0&&l!=0){randarray[i++]=l;}}document.write('<ul>');

for(n in randarray){ var p=randarray[n];var entry=json.feed.entry[p-1];

for(k=0; k < entry.link.length; k++){if(entry.link[k].rel=='alternate'){var item = "<li>" + "<a href=" + entry.link[k].href + ">" + entry.title.$t + "</a> </li>";

document.write(item);}}

}document.write('</ul>');}

</script>

<script src="/feeds/posts/default?alt=json-in-script&start-index=1&max-results=1000&callback=randomposts" type="text/javascript"></script>

Edit the code shown in 'numofpost=8' to change the number of posts being displayed in the widget.
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