When you work on WordPress day in and day out, sometimes you want to loosen up a bit. Maybe you can't do it on your clients' sites, but for yourself… well, why not? Especially if you have a hobby blog where people can expect a little more personality and fun.
After poking around in a few weird places on the internet, I found some WordPress plugins utterly weird ones that can make your websites sparkle and sparkle… maybe even literally.
1. Cornify
You don't want people to leave your site. You want as many eyeballs on your page as possible. So how do you keep them from looking the other way? You spawn unicorns and hold their attention ! It's like that. With Cornify, after 5 seconds of inactivity, your users’ screens are, well… fixed.
Unicorns pop up and dance. It's quite weird. And I must say that, personally at least, this is one of my WordPress plugins favorites I've seen. Is it relatively useless? Well yeah. But it's too weird not to love.
2. Random content
While it's not necessarily weird to show something random on your site (like a joke or an image or discounts or a link on a 404 page), you can use Content Randomizer to trick your users into thinking something really weird is going on – when in fact, everything is going according to plan.
With a simple shortcode implementation, you can dictate which pages you want to add random content to. Let's say on April Fool's Day, you have a deal that's too good to be true. With the content randomizer you can literally the make it too good to be true because the deal will never appear and will redirect to random pages on your site and display random content. Have fun with this one.
3. Gigantic slider… WTF?
To add a single line of CSS in your theme files (just go to Appearance – Customize – CSS ou Divi - Theme Options - Custom CSS ), your visiteurs will come to your site and as soon as they move their mouse over the element you specified via CSS, their cursor will expand by leaps and bounds. And they will certainly wonder what is going on in the world.
body {cursor: url (https://s3-us-west-2.amazonaws.com/s.cdpn.io/3/np_cursor_740125_000000.png), default; }
4. A set of PHP and CSS pranks
The GitHub user rhspeer knows what it takes when it comes to prank users. He has put together a compilation of pranks and quirks that you can add to your site as you wish. It uses PHP and CSS to make your site change everything to Comic Sans or turn the user gray screen. Although they're labeled as April Fool's jokes, I think the repo title has a more appropriate title: Joy.
5.Comcastify.js
Many of you know Andrew Kos. He is the fan of the internet. But I think I might have found his magnum opus. His masterpiece will go down in the annals of Internet history: Comcastify.js. As the readme.md says…
With all this Internet going around, you just want to experience the thrill of a long page. Give your users the chance to enjoy a bit of the future by slowly loading images from your Website with ComcastifyJS!
I mean, we're sure he doesn't call it that without a specific reason.
6. Roulette Logout
Don't you just love when a Website randomly disconnects you? Of course you like it! Why not do this 10% of the time with Roulette Logout, SO ? 1 loading of 10 pages on your admin panel, this plugin will log you out. Did you ask for WordPress plugins weird? Who would want that? You ? Maybe. But it's a good way to prank your staff or just... I don't know... take a break?
Looking:* Click Save Draft *
WordPress: “Hah! I disconnect you and I like it! »
Looking:* Lose your job if there is no browser backup *“Well, I guess I'll take a break. I still have to get up. »
SO ! Doesn't that sound fun? No ? Sure, it's weird, though. You have to admit it.
Note: this plugin shows that it has not been updated in 3 versions at the time of writing, but after testing it with WordPress 4.9.8, I can absolutely tell you that it works exactly as it does should.
come on be weird
As you can see, there are many weird WordPress plugins that can spice up your site. Or you can play pranks on them visiteurs of your Website via CSS or JavaScript in the style of Andrew Kos. The best part is that they are all harmless. (Well, maybe Logout Randomizer pourrait cause problems for some people, but the rest won't.) You don't want to do anything that's really detrimental to your users or your staff. But you might want to spice things up and make someone laugh. And some of these oddities will certainly do that.
