query_posts and date_query?

Hi amurado,
Please try the following code:

<?php
 query_posts(
  array(
   'post_type' => 'post',
   'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
   'order' => 'DESC',
   'meta_query' => array(
    array(
     'value'         => date('Ymd', strtotime("today")),
     'compare'       => '>=',
     'type'          => 'DATE'
    )
   )
  )
 );
?>

Hope this will help you.

Hi,

Have you looked at this post below? It has a similar question answered:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/show-events-with-start-dates-after-today-custom-post-type?replies=3

@cedcommerce Tried that and changed the post type to “movies” and it didn’t work. It now doesn’t show any posts on the front.

@tsure Just took a look at that thread and it seems pretty similar to the above code and it didn’t work.

Not sure what I’m doing wrong.

I am re-reading your question again and it says “I have the following code in my archive page and I was wondering how I can make it so it shows posts only after today’s date?”

I am thinking, wait, *after* today’s date? future posts are not published!

Am I not understanding this correctly?

@tsure: Yes, that’s correct. I’ve set it so scheduled posts show up on the front end. This is a custom post type for “movies” to use as a movie database. So future movies will need to be shown.

As you’re saying that I need a post that will be published in future but you want to need it now.
The code I’ve provided earlier output blank because you don’t have a post right now published with that date. If you want to show all the future
movies, you can publish a post of upcoming movies and assign them a category and can fetch those posts by that category.

@cedcommerce Is there no way to fetch all posts AFTER today with your code? Using something like the below:

'date_query' => array( 'after' => "today" )

Thank you

Yeah it’s possible to fetch all the posts after today, but make sure that you have published those posts for future date.
try the following code:

<?php
query_posts(
 array(
  'post_type'       => 'movies',
  'post_status'     => 'future',
 )
);
?>

Use the above query posts with the given parameter and fetch the posts.
You’ll get all the posts, published for after today.