The Future Is Now

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). 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: https://plugins.svn.www.ads-software.com/the-future-is-now/tags/1.0/

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.

Installation

e.g.

1. Upload future-post.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
3. Create a new post with a timestamp in the future and notice that it appears on your site anyway.

Reviews

Browken

February 25, 2023

I’ve been using this for years and it was great for my purposes, but agree that now using gutenberg editor, posts are marked future, so the plugin is no longer working.

Broken

7am November 29, 2021

I liked this plugin. But it seems not working any longer. Too bad.

it does what it says

mariken February 24, 2020

If you just need a simple and light-weight solution for your events, this is the way to go. If your theme or page-builder does not give you the option to change the order of the future posts/events, do add ‘reorder post’ plugin, and you might also need ‘exclude from blog’.

A small and useful plugin

certainlyakey January 18, 2018

Does what it says without much trouble or overhead.

awesome little plugin

Jakobuz January 30, 2024

<!– wp:paragraph –> <p class=””>still works! even after 10 years! really happy with that, because our site is less or more depending on this small plugin …</p> <!– /wp:paragraph –>

excellent

sridhar.kadali September 3, 2016

excellent

Contributors & Developers

Changelog

1.0

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

2.0

• Rewritten to be compatible with WordPress 3.5 and above