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.

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

Just found a cool script at http://www.adsenselogger.com. This script counts your adsense impressions and clicks! It also shows you which colors are the good ones. It also collects data from adsense to report the earnings.
So all I did is to create a plugin for this script…

ABOUT.
=================
This plugin installs the Adsense logger, inserts the corresponding javascript into the footer
and displays the reports within the admin interface. For statistics of your revenue, you have to
enter your adsense username and password in the configuration of adsense logger.
This adsense logger plugin uses the wordpress configured prefix for table creation for this logger.

from the original readme:
###################################################################
Note: If you do not feel secure by disclosing your adsense details,
simply leave them blank. If they are blank, no earnings tracking
will work, but all other stats works.

Your adsense username and password is NEVER transmitted home by the
script, and is ONLY used to get the latest stats from Google.
###################################################################

FEATURES
======
Features like the original AdsenseLogger:

• Free to use for anyone under the GNU license.
• Brand AdsenseLogger for Free!
• Tracks your Adsense clicks from unlimited domains.
• Tracks your Adsense impressions from unlimited domains.
• Tracks Adsense ad background colours.
• Tracks Adsense ad border colours.
• Tracks Adsense ad text colours.
• Tracks Adsense ad link colours.
• Tracks Adsense ad url colours.
• Tracks Adsense ad types.
• Tracks referring servers.
• Tracks target of Adsense ad clicked.
• Tracks time of click in both local and Google time.
• Displays updated Adsense Ad and Search earnings every 15 minutes.
• Correct earnings reporting after latest Google Adsense update.

Detailed reports include:

• Active top10,100,all pages today (impressions, clicks, CTR).
• Active top10,100,all pages overall (impressions, clicks, CTR).
• Last 10,100 days Adsense Ad earnings.
• Last 10,100 days Adsense Search earnings.
• Top 10,100 Outgoing Adsense click urls.
• Top 10,100 Referring pages with clicks.
• Top 10,100 Adsense Ad combinations with clicks.
• Top 10,100 Adsense Ad formats with clicks.
• Top 10,100 Adsense Ad border colours with clicks.
• Top 10,100 Adsense Ad background colours with clicks.
• Top 10,100 Adsense Ad text colours with clicks.
• Top 10,100 Adsense Ad url colours with clicks.
• Top 10,100 Adsense Ad link colours with clicks.
• See what Adsense ad formats that performs best.

Additional features:

• Earnings and clicks are logged to database for further analysis
• Complies with Google’s Adsense Terms.
• Easy to use interface
• Automatic install procedure done automagically by the plugin.
• Tracking code by JavaScript included by the plugin

CHANGELOG
=========
0.2.2: edit and more links wok now too.
0.2.1: Top100 Links will work now
0.2 : initial releas

INSTALL
========

1. Upload adsenselogger.php and the directory adsenselogger into your plugins directory of your wordpress installation
2. Chmod count.php and countimp.php to 0644.
3. Make sure that you Chmod config.php to 0644.
4. Activate the adsense logger plugin in your plugin administration
5. Go to adsense logger in the dashboard and enter username and password (if wanted)

Every view and click will be counted and detailed statistics of your adsense account will be reported.

Important:
This is my first beta version. If you like to try it. Please do so. Don’t hurt me if you have any problems.

SUPPORT
========

First check back at http://kloeschen.com regarding this adsense logger plugin.
The support forum of the original script is at adsenseguide.info:
http://www.adsenseguide.info/forum/viewforum.php?f=19

TODO.
=====
- Clean up the code,
- use wordpress style database connection
- clean up XHTML code generated
- fix bugs
- fix problems when curl is not installed. See John about his problems with curl, php and apache

Screenshots
===============

DOWNLOAD
==============
Download adsense logger wordpress plugin Version 0.2.2

KNOWN PROBLEMS
==============
Not every link works now, like the ‘view all’ linksevery link should work now

License.
========

This program is free software; you can redistribute it and/or modify
it under the terms of the GNU General Public License as published by
the Free Software Foundation; either version 2 of the License, or
(at your option) any later version.
!see included readme!

So viel zu meinem ersten Ausflug in die Welt der WordPress Plugin Erstellung.
Evtl. kommt ja bald mal wieder was. Vorher prüfe ich aber alle Namensrechte.

Ich bedanke mich hiermit bei den vielen Nutzern des Plugins, bitte sie aber gleichzeitig, das Plugin umgehend zu entfernen.

Weiterhin bedanke ich mich bei dem Namensinhaber und dessen Anwälten für die doch sehr nette Art und Weise mir das mitzuteilen. Andere hätten einen schon vor den Richter gezogen.

Vielen Dank!

Ob man damit aber mehr als 10.000 Dollar mit Adsense einnehmen kann, ist fraglich.
Adsense für das Blog optimieren