I have a random lyrics widget that displays a random verse. So far I have coded up Blue Oyster Cult and Bruce Springsteen for friends. I have a huge lyric library so I can make as many as I want. I have a good example of how to display random anything from a file.
I wrote the Random Hugo Award widget that displays the Amazon Book “Buy Me” badge for a random book. Since this is just a list of Amazon ASIN numbers it can sell anything from Amazon.
The problem I have at the moment is that the ASIN numbers are in a file and I’d like to put them in the repository so that a user can edit them from the widget configuration panel. I should have that done by the end of today.
I haven’t submitted any of these to the WordPress plugin repository as they are experimental, and in the case of lyrics, someone else’s intellectual property.