Amuse your visitors by taking them to a totally random post on your Micro.blog.
See that 🎲 Surprise me! link in the screenshot above? Every time it's clicked, the visitor is taken to a random post in the archive. You can have this too! Just install this Micro.blog plug-in.
To get updates on this plug-in, follow @sod on Micro.blog.
Hey! It's me, Sven. Surprise me! and my other plug-ins are passion projects released to the world for free. That said, donations are always welcome if you get value from my work.
💸 Donate $10 or any amount you're comfortable with. Thanks! 🙏
- 🪄 Magical address at
/surprise-me/. (Like https://dahlstrand.net/surprise-me/.) - 🎲 Every visit to the magical address redirects to a new random post.
- 💪 Flexible! Link to the magical address from anywhere: the footer, your main menu, or another website.
- 🎁 More to come! Tell me your wishes.
Hello, fellow microblogger! 👋 Thanks for being here. This plug-in is available in the official directory, so the installation process is quick and easy.
- Find Surprise me! in the plug-in directory.
- Choose the site you want to install the plug-in to.
- Press Install.
- Congratulations, the plug-in is installed.
After installing the plug-in, you should have a magical address at /surprise-me/ within a couple of minutes. So, for example, if your blog is at https://dahlstrand.net/, the magical address is https://dahlstrand.net/surprise-me/.
- Make sure surfing to
/surprise-me/redirects you to a random blog post. - Start linking to the magic address! You can put it anywhere a link goes: in a blog post, in your footer or menu. Or from a completely different website.
Feel free to reach out to @sod on Micro.blog for additional help.