lbyrne

BTW, current event calendar plugins still require hacking WP core code to display future dated posts. This is a feature request and AFAIK this is the correct topic category for this post:

“WordPress Support ? Requests and Feedback”

Thankyou HandySolo yes, “configurable” is the word.

niziol, perhaps a birthday was not the best example (it is still an event however) but I must disagree with you. WP is being selectively exclusionary with their self definition of “diary.”

As to what a record is:

>”…evidence of/or information about past events.”

This is certainly not the definition as you put it, so much as a definition of “record.”

To record simply means preserve in writing or some other form, information. Record itself does not imply or even make an allusion to what that information is, let alone meta such as future, past, present.

Similarly, the word event(s) makes no claims as to it’s own information or meta, other than “something that takes place” or an “occurance.”

Furthermore, a calendar may contain these events which have no chronological significance in themselves. Events become useful information when they are applied to a system of reckoning time such as a calendar. This is why WP does not fit perfectly within it’s own definition.

BTW, I do not dispute the intended purpose of WP. I do dispute WP’s selective exclusion of it’s own definition: A diary by definition is also, a record of events (not necessarily that day’s events).

vkaryl, I appreciate that WP is very extensible and there are many plugins out there. However…

To allow display of future posts (plugins or not), WP core code needs to be hacked.

This is unacceptable because when I upgrade WP, I need to remember every hack I made and re-implement the hacks (on new line numbers, with new code, in different files).

This is why I need basic past-present-future calendar functionality, built-in.

Pardon moi:

>A posting which is written today and appears only on a future date assumes that:

1. You have specific information about the future and…
2. Nobody else should know about this information until the future date.

The latter item being most significant. By removing the ability display future-dated posts, you effectively cut the functionality of the calendar in half.

It baffles me that *programmers* would regress the capability of something so proven and simple as a calendar.