An excerpt from http://www.sitepoint.com/building-a-wordpress-carousel-plugin-part-1/ , by Jérémy Heleine
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?