Building a WordPress Carousel Plugin: Part 1

In this 3 part series, we will take a look at how to build a WordPress carousel plugin using the WordPress Links Manager API.

As we saw when we introduced it, the Links Manager is the best way to manage a list of links in WordPress. Its API doesn't contain many functions, but there are enough to be able to develop some useful applications.

We won't use wp_list_bookmarks(), we'll be using other functions we saw in our previous article.

If you're not already familiar with the WordPress Links Manager and its API, then you may need to have a look at both of these articles mentioned above first, before continuing to build your carousel.

Carousels are not a rare thing on the web, and that's why I thought it is interesting to see how to build one. It is also a good way to test our knowledge of the WordPress Links Manager API, so why not?

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