How do you program a custom WordPress plug-in?

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Published on 2009-12-14T03:29:18Z Indexed on 2010/04/03 10:03 UTC
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I have seen several WordPress plug-ins for adding a "quote of the day" feature (or something similar) to your blog.

How do you create a customized one? I'm looking for something that will pull a daily entry from a list/database of my creation.

I apologize if my question is not detailed enough. Still a newbie with WordPress.

PART 2: Thanks for your prompt and on-point responses. With your responses and some additional research, I'm able to fine-tune my question. What I wish to accomplish is something similar to Amazon's Deal of the Day widget. Except, in my case, it will simply be a title and a corresponding link.

My presumption is that I will set up a database and (using php or something similar) have the information drawn from the database and displayed in my WP sidebar.

Additionally, I forgot to mention the time element. I want the displayed info to update once a day, at or around the same time each day.

Any ideas?

Thanks again. I'm so glad I found stackoverflow.

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