The code im using is part of the gallery index, but you may put it anywhere within the post loop.

        <?php $num_gallery_posts = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_parent = '$post->ID' AND post_type = 'attachment'" );
        if ( $num_gallery_posts > 1 ) {
          ?><div id="gallerypost_sub_right-<?php the_ID(); ?>" class="gallerypost_sub_right">
            <small>This Album contains <?php echo $num_gallery_posts; ?> items.</small>
          </div>
        <?php } ?>

Peter

Thanks for a nice plugin. However, I am experiencing some troubles with it. On static pages, it displays the same photo every time the page is loaded. On blog pages, however, it works fine.

Am I doing something wrong?

Thanks in advance for any help!
Peter

I’ve made three little corrections to the plugin which allow it to pass the W3C validator service, I thought I’d give them to you to see if you wanted to integrate them in a new version, basically changing ‘ into ” and making sure those were recognized as text in output by adding anti-slash in the appropriate places in //construct the image

          // construct the image
          echo "{$before_widget}{$before_title}$riw_widget_title{$after_title}";
          echo "";
            if ( $riw_display_title == "on" ) { echo "<strong>$attachment-&gt;post_title</strong>"; }
            echo "";
            echo "<a href=".get_permalink( $riw_image_link )." rel="nofollow">";
</a>

Thanks in advance.

This plugin works well

So grateful for the plugin, thanks again. Alistair

http://63.246.154.32/~highland/

The 3×3 grid is actually my sidebar with 9 widgets placed in there!

I’d like to use it again on the large image to the left. Any ideas?

Can you make a place holder post to store your images on?

I simply want to show a random picture from my media library. is that possible somehow?

This has been resolved in version 0.9.1

Thanks for finding this bug.
-Matt

Thanks for the great plugin. I think there is a bug; in advanced option the “save” button doesn’t save my preferences I checked…
Any idea?

I think im going to add this to the FAQ since there’s really nothing I can do beside switching the whole thing to Javascript.

Let me know how it goes.

Is there any way to get this to work with wordpress supercache enabled?

Thanks for this wonderful plugin. This is exactly what i am looking for to finish up my mobile blog to display the latest wallpaper from the wallpaper category

In my blog i just not using any widget all my widget elements are basically embedded with sidebar itself for quick load and custom design that fit my need.

Matt, I am just looking for the same. Could you please provide me a PHP code so that i can directly embed on the sidebar like what we display Akismet by just calling the function

Is there anyway to get the random pic to link to the post page and not the attachment page?

Thanks.

But if you really want to do this, here’s my (untested) idea of how you could.

function random_image_block() {
$riw_widget_title = “Image Title”;
$riw_center = “on”;
$riw_cat_id = “1″;
global $wpdb;

if ($riw_widget_title == “ ”) {
$riw_widget_title = __(‘Random Image’,'random-image-block’);
}

if ($riw_center == “on”) {
$riw_center_output = “align=center”;
} else {
$riw_center_output = “”;
}

$args = array(
‘post_type’=> ‘attachment’,
‘post_mime_type’=> ‘image’,
‘numberposts’=> -1,
‘post_status’=> null,
‘post_parent’=> $post->ID,
‘orderby’=> ‘rand’ );

$attachments = get_posts($args);
$noimages = count($attachments);
if ($attachments) {
foreach ($attachments as $attachment) {
if ( $riw_cat_id !== “-1″ ) {
$albumid = $attachment->post_parent;
//echo “on”;
} else {
$albumid = $attachment->post_parent;
foreach((get_the_category($albumid)) as $category) {
$riw_cat_id = $category->cat_ID;
}

}

if (in_category($riw_cat_id, $albumid)) {
$imgid = $attachment->ID;
$meta = wp_get_attachment_metadata($imgid);

// construct the image
echo “{$before_widget}{$before_title}$riw_widget_title{$after_title}”;
echo “<div class=’random-image’>”;
echo “<p class=’random-image-img’$riw_center_output >”;
echo “<a href=”.get_permalink( $imgid ).” rel=”nofollow”>”;
echo “<img width=’”.$meta['sizes']['thumbnail']['width'].”‘ height=’”.$meta['sizes']['thumbnail']['height'].”‘ src=’”.wp_get_attachment_thumb_url($imgid).”‘ alt=’Random image: “.$attachment-/>post_title.”‘ />”;
echo “</a></p>”;
echo “<p class=’random-image-caption’><strong>$attachment->post_excerpt</strong></p>”;
echo “<p class=’random-image-album’><small>”.__(‘Album:’,'random-image-block’).” <a href=”.get_permalink( $albumid ).” rel=”nofollow”>”.get_the_title($albumid).”</a></small></p>”;
echo “</div>”;
echo $after_widget;
break;
}
}
}
}

Could you please post an example code?

Thank you!

1. You can increase the size of your thumbnails and rebuild them. You may need to play with the sizes a bit After you have increased the size of your thumbnails, to update the thumbnails already on your site, check out the plugin “Regenerate Thumbnails” by Viper007Bond.

2. You may also modify the widgets code to use the medium size image instead of the thumbnail if your use them for something else. You will most likely still need to play with the sizes and rebuild the images to get it to look right.

Sorry,
-Matt

I only want a handful of images in the rotation and not the entire media library.

Also, this may be a WordPress oversight: Once you attach an image to a post or page, you can’t detach it.

Any recommendations?

Point 1, don’t know, need to look into it more. So the image isn’t loading or the whole page? If whole page, does the page load up to the random image, then stop?

Point 2, this is something that I have known about for a while, but haven’t figured out a better way (maybe I should just set it to 5 or something small, then add an option to change it back to all posts when someone needs too). I actually had it set to 25 for a while, but got complaints, but I have a feeling more people are seeing the slowness your seeing, then were “missing” the image on random page loads.

Point 3, The current way the categories are filtered is dumb (check to see if post has image, check to see if post is in category, if not, rerun loop), im actually surprised your the first to say anything about it. Currently Im looking at better ways of filtering what categories are displayed, that will allow for more then one at a time. But I wasn’t looking to necessary change the line of code, so maybe I should re think what needs to happen.

I’m glad the plugin does what you want it to do, if you find any other questionable parts or have any other input, please let me know.

hope this helps, and isn’t too confusing
mike

I’ve downloaded it and activated it using “all categories” though.

I have a lot of sub categories. Maybe I missed it. Can I select multiple categories?

Let me know if you have any problems.

I’m still using your plugin. I remember you were thinking implementing category selection. Just want to clarify so I can upgrade.

Thanks.

I’m glad to hear its working.
-Matt

That updated worked Perfectly!

I really have to commend you on the good work and thank you for providing top notch support for it too. That is something to be proud of.

Thank you!
-Tracy

It should now follow your themes structure, assuming the theme declared what it wants the plugin to look like, the plugin should now form to it.
-Matt

Excellent Plugin! Very Useful!

I too seem to have a theme that isnt co-operating as it should. Can you point me in the right direction (or css file) so i can get the formatting too? (and centered)

Thanks a lot, and thanks for the great plugin!