Only see pending post in sidebar

Thanks for using the Editorial Calendar. There’s no setting to show posts that are waiting for review instead of drafts in the unscheduled drafts section, but it shouldn’t be too difficult to change the code.

If you look in edcal.php on line 559 there’s a function called edcal_posts. This function gets the posts for the main calendar and the unscheduled drafts drawer.

On line 590 there’s a conditional statement that looks like this:

if ($edcal_startDate == ‘00000000’) {
$args[‘orderby’] = ‘title’;
}

This sorts the posts in the unscheduled drafts section by title (they are normally sorted by time). You could add an extra argument here to change the post_status field to look for posts which are waiting for review (WordPress calls that status pending).

I haven’t tried this out, but it should be pretty straight forward.

Good luck and please let us know how it goes.

Cheers,
Zack

Hey Zack

That worked like a charm, I added $args[‘post_status’] = ‘pending’; to the lines and it’s done! Thanks!

Frank

punkey: where exactly did you add that line?

Cableboy, Search for the statement from Zack’s post and change it to

if ($edcal_startDate == '00000000') {
            $args['orderby'] = 'title';
		$args['post_status'] = 'pending';
        }