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Posted by gerdami on 15 May 2008 19:33, last edited on 09 May 2010 05:58
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Description
- It would be nice to display a random page when clicking on a menu link
- with a list of categories of pages not to be displayed (nav: system: …)
- with an option for a particular category (quizz: )
- It would be nice to have it also in the [[include … ]] command:
- [[include RandomPage category="cat1, cat2"]]
- [[include RandomPage category="ALL" except="nav: system:"]
- It would be nice to have a random order element for use in ListPages
Links to forum Posts
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-10541/random-start-page
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-17138/random-page-generation
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-25248/random-pages
http://community.wikidot.com/forum/t-62986/
Workaround
Have a look at http://snippets.wikidot.com/code:choose-a-page, a clever snippet by
ErichSteinboeck. Please visit his/her userPage.
Suggested by
gerdami. Please visit his/her userPage.
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I'd like to see this implemented with ListPages, so you can set category and tags, and then order="random".
It'd be nice to displaying featured content in various locations, at the top of blog posts or what not to increase the amount of site content some visitor is exposed to on a single page and keep them on the site.
It would be very good for google widgits to, for those of us with suitable content. While I agree with the classful approach, if it's easier and quicker, I'd happily settle for a standard "pluck out a page from this subdomain". I think I have over 600 pages now, so even if the standard admin etc pages weren't blocked, they'd be suitably drowned out.
I've set up a funny way how to use ListPages to show all pages (or pages from selected categories) on just a few square centimeters — it may be scaled down until each pixel links to a different page.
So if a user clicks there, he'll almost click a “random” page.
You may want to check it out at http://snippets.wikidot.com/code:choose-a-page
You can use ListPages with the random order to DO all of the things listed here. Even though I'm not sure there's any include command as listed, you can accomplish the same thing with a ListPages limit="1" setup.