The Future Is Now

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.

e.g.

1. Upload the-future-is-now.php to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
3. Assign the post type of your choice in Settings -> Future is Now
4. Create a new post of your chosen post type with a timestamp in the future and notice that it appears on your site anyway.

Q: What should be done after updating to v3.0 or later?
A: Please re-activate the plugin, and set the post type in the Settings -> Future is Now.

1. 

   Plugin settings page.

3.2

• Fix Recent Posts and Archive widget so now they also show future posts
• Fix the custome query generated by other plugin such as Shortcodes Ultimate or List Category Posts.
• Provide a setting to display future post as “Published” in admin page of Post list.

3.1

• support future dated posts/events created by The Event Calendar plugin

3.0.2

• Update readme.

3.0.1

• Add screenshots.

3.0

• Updated for latest WordPress 6.8.

2.1

• Adding xjlin0 as a contributor.

2.0

• Rewritten to be compatible with WordPress 3.5 and above

1.0

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