I18N Special Pages

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Hey 0zz,

The requirement to display completely random posts cannot be fulfilled with the get_ function; that's why you need to do some additional processing, and cannot use all its handy parameters. The code I provided is intended to work as a replacement for the 'search' type of display (but in a theme template, not in the special page fields, in a case like the example you provided about random linked articles).

You can completely customize the foreach function, eg: 

PHP Code:

<?php 
foreach ($items_to_show as $index) {
  $article = $searchresults['results'][$index];
  echo '<div class="article">';
  echo '<h4>' . $article->title . '</h4>';
  echo 'Published on: <time datetime="' . $article->pubDate . '">' . $article->pubDate . '</time>';
  echo '<p>' . $article->getExcerpt($article->content, 50) . '</p>';
  echo '</div>';
}
?>

Output display settings in SpecialPages plugin do not work, obviously..

What do you mean? Of course they work, eg in a special page View tab:

PHP Code:

<?php 
  echo '<h1>'; get_special_field('title'); echo '</h1>';
  echo '<div class="content">'; get_page_content(); echo '</div>';
?>