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WordPress is a free and open source blogging tool and a content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL. It has many features including a plug-in architecture and a template system. WordPress is used by over 16.7% of Alexa Internet’s “top 1 million” websites and as of August 2011 manages 22% of all new websites. WordPress is currently the most popular blogging system in use on the Internet.

It was first released on May 27, 2003, by founders Matt Mullenweg and Mike Little as a fork of b2/cafelog. As of December 2011, version 3.0 had been downloaded over 65 million times.

WordPress has a web template system using a template processor.

WordPress users may install and switch between themes. Themes allow users to change the look and functionality of a WordPress website or installation without altering the information content. Themes may be installed using the WordPress “Dashboard” administration tool or theme folders may be uploaded via FTP. The PHP and HTML code in themes can also…

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How to create a ‘random posts button’ in WordPress

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How to create a ‘random posts button’ in WordPress

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Press a button and have WordPress serve you a random post!

The powerful & free WordPress open source blogging tool and content management system (CMS) based on PHP and MySQL, allows for various ways to output posts. One such way is by outputting a list of randomly selected posts using the MySQL RAND() function for the orderby parameter value in get_posts.

But what if you simply want to avoid displaying random posts on a page and just want to link to a random post?

Read on for a how-to after the jump.

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Download WordPress directly to web server using Wget

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Download WordPress directly to web server using Wget

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Save time by downloading and unzipping WordPress directly to your web server in less then 30 seconds using just two command lines.

You may wish to download WordPress directly to your web server using Wget (or lynx or another console-based web browser) if you want to avoid FTPing.

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Install multiple WordPress installations to single domain

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Install multiple WordPress installations to single domain

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Create multiple sites by using the multisite feature

As of WordPress 3.0 (released June 17, 2010), you now have the ability to create a network of sites by using the multisite feature. Prior versions of a single WordPress install were not capable of running multiple blogs. There was a version especially made for this, called WordPress MU, but it was more advanced than WordPress, and was intended for very large sites with lots of blogs, not just a few.

Installs of the WordPress 3.x branch and above now come with the native ability to create multiple blogs, referred to as a network of sites. This is because the codebase for WordPressMU was merged into core.

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