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1.0

First Release

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Choose your categories and interval from the settings menu and it will display 1 post from the chosen categories at your set interval, chosen randomly.

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Can I display more than one post at a time?

No, not at this point.

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Upload the entire ‘post-of-the-day’ folder to the ‘/wp-content/plugins/’ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
You should see “Post of the Day” under your Settings. Edit the settings.
Include this shortcode within a post or page: [potd]

Alternatively, if you want to include the post somewhere in your theme that is not in a post or page, just include the following in your php page:

<?php echo do_shortcode('[potd]');  ?>\n

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$\"screenshot-1.png:$
screenshot-1.png: Settings page

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