Random Blog

bats0711 · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 9:20 pm
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What happen to the little arrow in the top right hand corner? You know the one that took you to a random blog. I liked that feature. Is it gone or can I look for it else where?
Thanks!

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corkie1 · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 9:28 pm
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I just found mine on the left side next to “New Post”. Looks as if a few things have shifted around.
bats0711 · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 9:55 pm
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for me that says “random post” and that just takes me to a random post of the blog I am already on. The arrow was sort of like, I click it and it takes me to any random blog on wordpress.com and if I click it again it would take me to a dfifferent one, ect…. Now in the right hand side I have search wordpress.com blogs instead of the arrow.
corkie1 · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 10:32 pm
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Oh right… I know what you mean now. I like that feature too so hopefully someone will respond (correctly) to your query: )
bats0711 · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 10:39 pm
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;) its a hard one to explain.
thesacredpath · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 10:44 pm
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Contact staff directly at http://support.wordpress.com/contact/ . With the redesign of the admin bar perhaps they just forgot to put it back in.
bats0711 · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 11:03 pm
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thank ya thank ya tsp, you’re the best!
thesacredpath · Member · Jul 31, 2009 at 11:05 pm
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You’re welcome and thanks.
heatherslalaland · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 9:51 am
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How exactly does one find a random blog now? The little arrow at the top only took you to the next blog, which isn’t random at all. I’d like to be able to just click on a button and a random blog appears.
heatherslalaland · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 10:51 am
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I just found a way that you can get to a random blog.

Add a new link in your blogroll or whatever. The link is:

http://en.wordpress.com/next/

Every time you click on it, it will take you to a random blog!
justjennifer · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 11:01 am
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Oh, excellent! I just dragged that link up to my FF bookmarks toolbar and it works quite well.

But, I’m with tsp-we should let Support know. Maybe they simply overlooked it.
bats0711 · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 1:41 pm
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Hi you all! because wordpress staff are the best when it comes to helping us out, they sent me their speedy reply to my contact.
Here it is:

Hi,
We’re working on some updates to the admin bar and design of our site. Currently
the random blog arrow is gone, but look for it to come back as we roll out more
updates.

—

Nick

Automattic | WordPress.com
bats0711 · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 1:42 pm
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oh and thanks heathers for posting that link that we can use until we get our nifty little arrow back.
ronsrealm · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 4:29 pm
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Guys – Random Blog is in the Blog Info drop-down menu. It’s called Random Post, which amounts to the same thing – you still get taken to a random blog.
justjennifer · Member · Aug 1, 2009 at 5:36 pm
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@ronsrealm-that will take you to a random post on the blog you are on, not a random blog.

@bats0711-glad to hear it’s being worked on.

(More site updates – #itmustbetheweekend)
heatherslalaland · Member · Aug 2, 2009 at 3:29 pm
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@justjennifer and @bats0711 – Glad I could help! I discovered it quite by accident myself, so thought I’d share, as it was really annoying me that I couldn’t find a random blog. I think it should be fairly prominent, and not hidden away.

@ronsrealm – It’s not a random post in our own blog we’re looking for, which is what the Random Post feature did.

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