I would like to select a list of nodes (by taxonomy, or by selecting each one manually) which should be added to a queue. This queue should then work as a "picture of the day" (or whatever) queue. Thus, the scheduler could unpublish all nodes added to the queue. Then on a set interval (selectable by the administrator/queue owner) it will publish/promote the next item in the queue into the "picture of the day" spot, and denote the previous.

It should keep a history, so that one can go into the archive and find "picture of the day" for a certain date. (It would work a bit like "Word of the day" at dicionary.com).

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pkej commented
Status: Active » Closed (fixed)

I made a solution without using the scheduler:

Create a CCK node with three integer fields, one for month, one for day and one for the year.

Create a view which will show just 1 node. Select the content type as a filter (optionally as an argument, in order to change different content-types).

Create three arguments corresponding to the integer fields.

Create a custom php snippet for returning an array of arguments

$today[] = date('j');
$today[] = date('n');
$today[] = date('Y');
return $today;

and insert it into Argument Code in the Argument Handling Code collapsible field.

I added a sort criteria where I show the last updated node first. Just in case I assign more than one node to the same date.

The reason I didn't use the date field is that I want to expand this concept to create nodes that will occur on every year. For example a May 17. node for the Norwegian constitution day, etc.

It can also be expaned to show/do specific things on a specific day of the month (for example account reminders).

Hope someone finds this usable in the future.