/? switches attached to URL

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  izaakmak · Member · May 26, 2009 at 4:26 am

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  I’m using the /?random switch added to my URL to produce a random post. I seem to remember that there are other switches as well, but I can’t remember where I found out about the one I’m using. Can anyone point me to a list of them?

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  raincoaster · Member · May 26, 2009 at 4:55 am

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  I haven’t seen such a list. What kinds of functionalities did they have?

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  izaakmak · Member · May 26, 2009 at 5:19 am

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  I know there was at least one for the most recent post in addition to a random post, because I was using it before I got stupid with experimentation and deleted the code from my text box. Finding that one again is the main reason I posted this topic. And, of course, I’d like to “play” with the others. :mrgreen:

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 26, 2009 at 12:55 pm

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  This will give you random posts from a specific month:
  <a href="http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.wordpress.com/2009/05/files/?random" target="_blank">RANDOM_POST_FROM_MAY_2009</a>

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  izaakmak · Member · May 26, 2009 at 1:51 pm

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  Hey, that’s a good one! Keep ’em coming.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 26, 2009 at 11:47 pm

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  izaakmak

  It’s not really all that very interesting.
  The http://YOUR_BLOG_NAME.wordpress.com/2009/05/
  will already show just the links for one month (in this case for May 2009).
  Might encourage readers to look at older posts?
  I thought I got this from a forum regular, but he says not. I do vaguely remember reading about some “tricks” that can work with HTML, but which ordinarily are used with scripts, arrays, other stuff I did not understand at the time.

  What I was trying to do was to show random pictures, but it seems the underlying structure of wp.com can’t be applied.

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  izaakmak · Member · May 27, 2009 at 12:24 am

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  1tess

  I’m still grateful. Besides, I’ve started a “snippet” file and I want to include all these type of seldom used (and thus hard to remember) tricks. Like I said before, I’m pretty sure there was more where I found the /?random switch. It must have been something I found while looking for something else.

  Thanks again, and keep ’em coming.

  P.S. I posted a request earlier that I never got a response to. It’s been pushed of the stack that I see, so I don’t know if you saw it. Searching for “text cloud” will bring it up.

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · May 27, 2009 at 12:46 am

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  izaakmak
  Yes, I did see your text cloud question, but I did not have any ideas about it. I think also that I did not understand the question.
  Yes, start a snippet file for yourself, either as a second wordpress.com test blog, or save the info as “draft posts” or as “draft pages” on your blog. Or just a textedit file (Mac program) or something similar for Windows or whatever operating system you use.
  As for the ?random
  I wish I could remember how I found that: an idiot savant sort of search made by a rank beginner.
  Ta! tx 2u