Best random plugins for WordPress
The most popular random plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Related Products for WooCommerce leads with 3K+ active installs, ahead of Random Post Plugin (3K+) and Random Post for Widget (1K+). All 122 plugins tagged “random” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 random plugins
- 1.
Related Products for WooCommerceThe most installed random plugin, with 3K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 46 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 2.
Random Post Plugin3K+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 20 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 3.
Random Post for Widget1K+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
- 4.
Easy Quotes700+ active installs. Rated 4.7 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago.
- 5.
A Random Number700+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, updated 1 week ago.
- 6.
Better Random Redirect600+ active installs. Rated 4.6 from 10 reviews, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
- 7.
Better Blogroll300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 14 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.2.1.
- 8.
Random Posts300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.6.2.
- 9.
XV Random Quotes300+ active installs. Rated 3.7 from 6 reviews, updated 2 months ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.9.11.
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Random300+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 2 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.6.11.
All 122 plugins tagged “random”
Related Products for WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:2#4,011by peachpay1 year ago
Display random related products in a slider based on product category, tag, or attribute on every product page.
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 4.9(46)
- Downloads
- 24/day
Random Post Plugin
Up in the last 7 days:4#4,027by Christoph1 year ago
Automatically redirect to your latest, oldest, random, or other post through a custom URL
- Installs
- 3K+
- Rating
- 5.0(20)
- Downloads
- 14/day
Random Post for Widget
Down in the last 7 days:31#6,271by Shashi Dhar Kumar3 years ago
This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your sidebar. You can exclude certain posts by ID.
- Installs
- 1K+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Easy Quotes
Down in the last 7 days:13#7,764by Jürgen Müller2 months ago
Collect and show your favorite Quotes / Reviews / Testimonials or any other short snippet of Text.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 4.7(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
A Random Number
Up in the last 7 days:14#7,951by Mortgage Calculator12 days ago
Display a random number anywhere with a shortcode. Set a min/max range, choose number formatting and get a fresh value on every page load.
- Installs
- 700+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 16/day
Better Random Redirect
Down in the last 7 days:32#8,193by Robert Peake1 year ago
Based on the original Random Redirect, this plugin enables efficient, easy random redirection to a post. Supports setting a category for all random re …
- Installs
- 600+
- Rating
- 4.6(10)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Better Blogroll
Up in the last 7 days:26#10,200by dyersorg15 years ago
Allows you to display a configurable number of random links from your Wordpress blogroll
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Random Posts
Down in the last 7 days:10#10,375by RobMarsh9 years ago
Displays a list of random posts.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 2.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
XV Random Quotes
Down in the last 7 days:102#10,719by Xavi Ivars2 months ago
Display and rotate quotes anywhere on your WordPress site. Fully integrated with WordPress Custom Post Types, Gutenberg blocks, and REST API.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 3.7(6)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Random
Up in the last 7 days:20#10,772by Scribit2 years ago
Random, a great plugin designed to insert random contents, posts and other types, into your website. Enjoy its shortcodes!
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Posts Widget
Down in the last 7 days:49#11,236by Ady Romantika13 years ago
This simple plugin is a widget that displays a list of random posts on your widgetized sidebar. It supports multiple instances with WordPress 2.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Random Posts
Down in the last 7 days:67#11,769by yakuphan9 years ago
Display random posts from selected categories or current category or all posts with thumbnail images (optional).
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Gallery
Down in the last 7 days:90#12,867by David G3 years ago
Random Gallery displays a different subset of your images every time your page is refreshed.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.5(11)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Posts from Category
Up in the last 7 days:51#12,870by Stephanie Leary10 years ago
A widget that lists random posts from a chosen category.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Content Randomizer
Down in the last 7 days:151#13,460by Dominykas8 years ago
This plugin allows you to add texts, images, videos and display them in a random order or slideshow.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Generate Random Orders For WooCommerce
Down in the last 7 days:9#14,588by BerryPress5 months ago
Generates random orders for your WooCommerce store. It's a great tool for testing and populating your store's database with random data.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Tagline Rotator
Up in the last 7 days:41#15,778by vhauri15 years ago
Tagline Rotator plugin randomly selects a tagline from a list of user-entered taglines.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.0(2)
- Downloads
- 4/day
Random Post Shortcode
Up in the last 7 days:104#16,437by PowieT4 years ago
Random Post Shortcode and Widget
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 3.0(5)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random image gallery with fancy zoom
Down in the last 7 days:166#16,693by gopiplus3 years ago
This plugin allows you to simply and easily show random image anywhere in your template files or using widgets with onclick fancy zoom effect.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Nice Quotes Rotator
Up in the last 7 days:41#17,772by CodeAndReload14 years ago
Allows display of random quotes via shortcode, a sidebar widget, and/or on the admin page. Quotes can be user-entered, post excerpts or links.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Lorem Pixels
Up in the last 7 days:18#18,512by Bimal Poudel8 years ago
API based lorem lipsum styled random text and image generator.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random File
Up in the last 7 days:194#18,726by Scott Reilly1 year ago
Retrieve the name, path, or link to a randomly chosen file or files in a specified directory.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Roulette
Down in the last 7 days:211#19,059by Mark Westguard1 year ago
Display a random image from your Media Library galleries with full accessibility support. Spin the wheel of images!
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
B7 Random Number
Down in the last 7 days:149#19,506by blogvii2 years ago
Generate customizable random numbers in your WordPress posts and pages effortlessly with this plugin.
- Installs
- 60+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Hello Dolly For Your Song
Down in the last 7 days:314#21,948by unmus1 year ago
This simple plugin shows a random line of any text in your blog.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Orbisius Random Name Generator
Down in the last 7 days:204#21,968by Svetoslav Marinov9 months ago
Generates a random name based on a keyword list that you define.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Factoid
Down in the last 7 days:176#21,977by delahoc8 years ago
Place random quotes or trivia facts on your site through shortcodes or widgets
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Posts with Thumbnails
#22,028by wondermill14 years ago
Puts a list of clickable random posts with their featured image in your sidebar as a widget, this list is customizable.
- Installs
- 40+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
VR-Frases
#23,608by Vicente Ruiz Gálvez1 year ago
Organize and display quotes with author management, classification, and search functionality. Includes widgets, shortcodes, and import/export features …
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Random image light box
Down in the last 7 days:131#24,013by gopiplus3 years ago
Random image light box plugin allows you to show one random image with on click light box effect in the website.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Post Redirect for WordPress
#24,168by Nick Adams10 years ago
Redirects users to a random post on your website
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Slider
Down in the last 7 days:342#24,520by Stefan Hüsges9 years ago
A responsive Slider
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Excerpts Fader
Down in the last 7 days:393#24,782by Jack Reichert9 years ago
Creates a widget that takes randomly a number of excerpts from a category of your choice and fades them in and out.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Post with ajax
Up in the last 7 days:145#24,819by sadegh33336 years ago
Combining beauty and efficiency to display random posts
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 3.5(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Randomizer
#24,864by Julian Widya Perdana16 years ago
Randomize the posts from your Home and Archive page everytime the visitor load the page
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 1.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Posts for Query Loop Block
#25,033by Abhay Rautela10 months ago
Adds "rand" to the REST API orderby options so the Query Loop block can use random post order safely without breaking the Site Editor preview.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Posts Within Date Range Widget
Down in the last 7 days:178#25,532by lupka16 years ago
Widget that displays the title(w/ link), date(optional), and excerpt(optional) of random posts within a selected date range.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Random Quote
Down in the last 7 days:241#25,764by sabirmostofa11 years ago
Display a random quote provided by QOTD.org in your sidebar as a widget or in a page/post using a shortcode. For more info:www.qotd.org/wp-plugin.html
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Rotating Links Widget
Down in the last 7 days:192#26,783by JohnnyPea16 years ago
This plugin add widget which displays random links on your website.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Post Box
Down in the last 7 days:47#27,318by Xoda16 years ago
The Random Post Box plugin places a box anywhere on the blog, where it loads random posts one-after-the-other.
- Installs
- 20+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 1/day
Simplicy Random Post
#29,595by fred9114 years ago
Simplicy Random Post is a WordPress plugin that allows you to display random items in your sidebar, you can choose the month and year of publication o …
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 3.3(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Generate WordPress Entities
Up in the last 7 days:240#29,844by marchenko.alexandr13 years ago
Generate wordpress pages, posts, categories, comments for development enviroment in few clicks.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 4.3(6)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Number Generator
Down in the last 7 days:249#30,098by Whiler17 years ago
Simply replace the tag [random-number] by a random number.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random numbers
Up in the last 7 days:170#31,033by adamskaat5 years ago
Random numbers builder plugin allows the visitor to create random numbers on the page.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Random Tagline
Down in the last 7 days:514#31,218random-tagline17 years ago
Replaces the blog tagline with a random tagline from a text file.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WP Random Blog Description
Down in the last 7 days:970#31,417by D4N13L15 years ago
Replaces the Blog Description every hour, day, week or month randomly. You can define as many Blog Descriptions as you want.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ozh' Random Words
Down in the last 7 days:296#31,474by Ozh16 years ago
Create list of items and display random item. Random quotes, or replace "Joe said" with "Joe said/commented/wrote/thought"...
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Random Comment Widget
Down in the last 7 days:155#31,489by hammer40414 years ago
Random Comment Widget displays random comment from selected page or post on your website. Great solution for testimonial.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Completely Random Widget
#31,919by Toemat15 years ago
Uses Google images to find a random image from the web and display it on your site.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
RandPost widget
Down in the last 7 days:342#33,024by dev.Fishy13 years ago
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- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day