Is it possible to change text automatically every 24 hours

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  alwayswithintention · Member · Dec 8, 2022 at 7:54 pm

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  Hello, I am attempting to build my first WordPress site so please bear with me :)

  I want to display a different word in the hero area of the website every 24 hours. The word ‘Dedication’ is currently there as an example. I have an excel spreadsheet of 365 words, one for each day of the year. Is there a plugin or way to have this word update every 24 hours and pull from my spreadsheet? Or I can manually input all 365 options if I have to.

  Thank you!

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  staff-95percentghost · Staff · Dec 9, 2022 at 10:12 am

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  Hi there, just to check – this was for your currently free site http://alwayswithintention.wordpress.com/ ?

  As far as I’m aware, quote- or word-of-the-day plugins do exist, however I should note that you’d want a Business plan on http://alwayswithintention.wordpress.com/ in order to install plugins.

  What you could do as an alternative is consider setting up scheduled blog posts to share the word of the day – a scheduled post will publish when someone visits your site at or after the scheduled time. I don’t believe there’s any way to get the scheduled posts to pull from your spreadsheet however:
  https://en.support.wordpress.com/schedule-a-post-or-page/

  Otherwise, you can also schedule a post when using post by email:
  https://wordpress.com/support/post-by-email/#delaying-your-post

  I’m not sure if you’d have any way to pull the word of the day from your spreadsheet to your email, but if you do then that’s one option for automation.
  

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  alwayswithintention · Member · Dec 9, 2022 at 2:59 pm

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  Hi there! Thank you for responding. I definitely will be buying a business plan so that I can install plugins. I just wanted to make sure it was possible first :)

  That being said – do you know of any plugins in particular that do this well? Either word of the day, or automatically updating content daily (pre-scheduled)? And those that are as user friendly as possible?

  I really appreciate your insight!! :)

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  staff-ozmodiar · Staff · Dec 9, 2022 at 9:14 pm

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  We don’t have any specific recommendations for that type of plugin. You might ask over on the WordPress.org forums:

  https://wordpress.org/support/forums/