I’m currently writting a very cool plugin/addon for wordpress. Therefor I needed a way to get a defined number of random posts.
And guess what? There is already a function providing this feature: get_posts()
To get 4 random posts just use this function call:
get_posts(‘numberposts=4&orderby=rand()’);
Since the argument orderby will be forwarded to the SQL statement, we will get 4 random posts from database. There are several more arguments, which can be found in the codex.
Darren Rowse ( ProBlogger ), Duncan Riley ( Blogherald ) and Jeremy Wright ( Ensight ) started a new network of blogs at b5media.
I already subscribed to some of the blogs at b5media like SimplyDumb and She knows best.
Stay tuned!
Dave Shea anounces some major-retooling of the CSS Zen Garden Archive.
Nice to read and a very good work Dave!
If you are using PHP5 you are encouraged to update to version PHP 5.0.5 as soon as possible.
A list of all changes in PHP 5.0.5 can be found in the PHP 5 ChangeLog.
Feedburner.com did some nice changes. The new design of your administration menu is great and not that full as it was before.
I do like the “personalized Feed”, which informs me about the status of my feeds, wether feedburner has problems while reading them or not. If you don’t use Feedburner yet, read the features and give it a try!
If you are using wordpress, Orderedlist has a plugin for you
Kevin Burton is begging publicy on his blog to get into the Yahoo Publisher Network Beta Test.