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: https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/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. Jack updated the plugin for WordPress 6.8.
Screenshots
Plugin settings page.
Installation
e.g.
- Upload
the-future-is-now.phpto the/wp-content/plugins/directory - Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
- Assign the post type of your choice in Settings -> Future is Now
- Create a new post of your chosen post type with a timestamp in the future and notice that it appears on your site anyway.
FAQ
Q: What should be done after updating to v3.0 or later?
A: Please re-activate the plugin.
Reviews
Contributors & Developers
“The Future Is Now” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.
Contributors
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Interested in development?
Browse the code, check out the SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS.
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
2.1
- Adding xjlin0 as a contributor.
3.0
- Updated for latest WordPress 6.8.
3.0.1
- Add screenshots.
3.0.2
- Update readme.
3.1
- support future dated posts/events created by The Event Calendar plugin