What's the easiest way to do this in wordpress?
 

I've got 20 or so thumbnail images in my sidebar that link to sponsers. I want to randomize the order in which they appear on each page load.

i think their is a random plugin, or you could just write a mini php script and call it from the sidebar

Yeah, there are a ton of "randomness" plugins. I'm sure there HAS to be one to fit this. plugins.wordpress.org i think.

It doesn't need to be a "plug-in." Write a few lines of php to randomize an array containing your thumbs & links. Then use a php include to show the results in a sidebar.

Can you spell it out for me? I've got no idea how to write something like that.

Pretty simple to do. First create a category called "sidebar links." When you create the category, select the 'sort order' as "random." Next, associate all your links with this category and they should all appear in a random order. Good luck, AR+

Yeah you can make a link category, associate image with each link, put it in the sidebar with "getlinks_byname" or whatever the call is and set the category to random, look it up on the codex for the details

Yeah you can make a link category, associate image with each link, put it in the sidebar with "getlinks_byname" or whatever the call is and set the category to random, look it up on the codex for the details