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the-future-is-now

plugin

3.3.8 • public • Published 14 hours ago

Allow future-time-stamped posts to appear live on your site immediately.

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Description

A WordPress plugin aimed primarily at events sites, where you want to be able to timestamp posts in the future but have them appear immediately (by default, WordPress will not display a future timestamped post until its go-live date rolls around). Without changing database, this plugin sets the post_status field to "publish" rather than "future" when publishing a post, even if its timestamp is in the future.

Note: This 2.0 version requires WordPress 3.5 or higher. If you need this to work with versions lower than 3.5, grab the 1.0 version from svn: http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/the-future-is-now/tags/1.0/

Installation

e.g.

  1. Upload the-future-is-now.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress.
  3. Check the post type or the widget of your choice in Settings -> Future is Now
  4. Create a new post of your chosen post type with a timestamp in the future and notice that it appears on your site anyway.

Frequently Asked Questions

Q: What should be done after updating to v3.0 or later?
A: Please re-activate the plugin, and set the post type in the Settings -> Future is Now.

Screenshots

Plugin settings page.

Plugin settings page.

Changelog

3.3.8

  • add support for Lissa's Newsletter plugin (legacy with email-create) to include future posts.

3.3.7

  • add support for Lissa's Newsletter plugin (legacy themes preview) to show future posts.

3.3.6

  • Enable toggling of future posts display under /category/category-name by settings. Also adding a workaround for Lissa's Newsletter plugin to show future posts in its latest posts block by changing filters in its newsletter_emails_composer admin page.

3.3.5

  • add back the query for shortcode ultimate plugin.

3.3.4

  • add back single future post (by post id) visibility for visitors

3.3.3

  • add back the display for future tribe_events

3.3.2

  • add back the future post (by permalink) visibility for visitors, and update screenshots

3.3.1

  • resolve svn test structure, no user function changes

3.3.0

  • Fix the recursive bug when upgrading from 3.2.3.
  • Add simple tests

3.2.4

  • Add an option to toggle future post in calendar widget

3.2.3

  • Fix the display for un-loggged in users.

3.2.2

  • Add options to limit displaying future months in Archive Widget
  • Fix display of single post premalink including media files.

3.2.1

  • Add activation transient message so that admins can enter settings page upon activation.
  • Enable settings for post post_type and show future as published in admin as default.
  • Exclude attachment post type.

3.2

  • Fix Recent Posts and Archive widget so now they also show future posts.
  • Fix the custome query generated by other plugin such as Shortcodes Ultimate or List Category Posts.
  • Provide a setting to display future post as "Published" in admin page of Post list.

3.1

  • support future dated posts/events created by The Event Calendar plugin.

3.0.2

  • Update readme.

3.0.1

  • Add screenshots.

3.0

  • Updated for latest WordPress 6.8.

2.1

  • Adding xjlin0 as a contributor.

2.0

  • Rewritten to be compatible with WordPress 3.5 and above

1.0

  • Original version, compatible up to WordPress versions lower than 3.5

Note

This seemingly simple plugin was graciously written by the magical Ryan Boren when I was facing a deadline. He doesn't have time to maintain/host it, so I agreed to. Andrew Nacin tweaked it to work with WP 3.5, when the APIs changed a bit. Jack updated the plugin for WordPress 6.8.