I've written my first WordPress plugin (woohoo!) that displays a Today
at the Library list of the current day's events. I have the left
sidebar of our Library News blog set to call the plugin function, as
seen here:
http://sonomalibrary.org/news/
It's been suggested that I post this as a
Genny,
I would encourage you to release your plugin, though writing plugins
can be an addictive behavior ;-)
You might consider widgetizing the sidebar component of your plugin so
that nobody but you needs to muck around in PHP to make it work.
There's a good template for making the