This tutorial show you how to create a StumbleUpon-like bookmarklet button for your blog, which will randomly choose an article from your blog when pressed.

Do you use StumbleUpon? If you install StumbleUpon toolbar for your browser, you can press the Stumble! button to randomly jump to some websites. Now, i would like to create an button which can randomly jump to any article, from my blog. You can try to drag this button (TechSnack) to your bookmarklet folder.

Step 1

The first thing that you need to do is install Wordpress Random Redirect plugin, and activate it.

Step 2

Now, you can randomly jump to any article by adding ?random to your website’s URL. For example, http://www.techsnack.net/?random.

Step 3

Right-click the bookmarklet toolbar and choose New Bookmark. Fill-in the Name and the Location. In this example, Name is TechSnack and the Location is http://www.techsnack.net/?random.

Step 4

Done, you can now jump to random post by clicking thing button. If you want to add this button to your website. Simply drag the button to your post. Provide this link to your user so that they can always jump to your random post anytime.

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