Any such widget to randomly display code snippets

Consider downloading and installing Otto’s PHP Code Widget, then something like this code in one of those widgets:

<?php
$args=array(
  'orderby' => 'rand'
  'post_type' => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'posts_per_page' => 1,
  'caller_get_posts'=> 1
);
$my_query = null;
$my_query = new WP_Query($args);
if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
  while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
    <p><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
    <?php
    the_content();
  endwhile;
}
wp_reset_query();  // Restore global post data stomped by the_post().
?>

Oh forget what I said–you don’t want to use posts.

Maybe consider using a Custom Post Type and save your snippets in those, then just change the above so that

'post_type' => 'your custom post type',

Thanks MichaelH – appreciate!

Thanks MichaelH, what do you suppose the following error from the code above is . . . I’m trying to add it to a PHP Code widget in a sidebar.

I used the Custom Post Type UI plugin to create a ‘movies’ post type.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_CONSTANT_ENCAPSED_STRING, expecting ')' in . . . php, eval()'d code on line 4

Guessing because it’s not in the loop or whatever. Is it possible to do this in the sidebar?

Thanks!