The latest version of the Random Image Selector plugin for WordPress is available. This is a relatively minor update which precedes the v2.0 update that I’m hoping to release early in the new year.
This update includes a major function addition (generateRandomImageUrlEnc) which spits out a properly URL-encoded version of the random image’s URL.
There’s also been a full review of the code to ensure that it works as expected with WordPress 2.7, thankfully there was precious little to change.
I’m hoping to get the next major release done just prior to WordCamp Whistler so that I can do a quick talk on image randomness and specifically this plugin.
As always, thank you to everyone who has downloaded the plugin in the past, and to those who continue to comment on the blog. Your suggestions are all valued and I’ll be working some of them into the upcoming 2.0 release.
Photo credit: Darren Hester on Flickr
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Version 1.5.5 released tonight. This should fix the issue the @ScubaFish reported. Confirmed functionality working up to WP 2.8.5
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Keith – I like your plugin, and found I could ‘hack’ it to create dynamic image addresses based on category, so the random images displayed will relate to the current category. With a bit more hacking (not very pretty) I was able to create a random array of image addresses so can display multiple randomly selected pics, by category. I’ll send along the url when we go ‘live’.
Very happy to find the generateRandomBGStyle function already done as I went in to modify it to generate a random background image!
It was not documented anywhere but was exactly what I needed.
Thanks
Hey Keith, is there a quick way to change the function to read subfolders?
Well, I used this in my blog and it do work well! Thanks.
Very useful plugIn – think I will use it in some of my blogs – thank you for posting.