Random posts gadget for blogger 1 Comments

Random posts gadget is used to display posts from your blog at random. All the posts will be selected from your blog archive. Each time the blog page is refreshed the posts displayed by gadget also changes. This gadget helps in digging your old posts from blog archieve.

To add this gadget go to > Layout > Add a Gadget > HTML/Javascript and add the below code.

<script type="text/javascript">
var randarray = new Array();var l=0;var flag;
var numofpost=6;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>

To change the number of posts to be displayed, change the code in red to your required value.