Comments for Keith Millington

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Danny

Danny — Thu, 15 Jul 2010 05:43:04 +0000

I wonder if it’s possible to set an ‘expiry date’ on a post rather than base it on time of the gig day? reason being I actually need this for publishing exhibitions which run for longer than one night so I don’t what an exhibition to jump to ‘previous’ on the day it opens, but the day it closes… How would I do this?

Thanks so much for taking the time to write this

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Chuck Reynolds

Chuck Reynolds — Thu, 08 Jul 2010 19:46:47 +0000

So will the gigs then be posted to the RSS feed if they are future (scheduled) posts?

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Jason

Jason — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:30:09 +0000

Last attempt - never tried code in a comments box before.

query_posts(’showposts=20&category_name=Queensland&meta_key=EventDate&meta_compare=>=&meta_value=’ . $todaysDate . ‘&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC’);

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Jason

Jason — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:29:13 +0000

=&meta_value=' . $todaysDate . '&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC'); ?>

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Jason

Jason — Fri, 18 Jun 2010 04:26:59 +0000

I have been playing with this sort of thig on a recent site and here is the solution i have used - it bypasses the future posts issue altogether and pulls the date from a custom field.

=&meta_value=’ . $todaysDate . ‘&orderby=meta_value&order=ASC’); ?>

You can add a time as well if needed - i use this and have a form setup that automatically publishes the post - so no backend manipulation has to occur.

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Tom Hubble

Tom Hubble — Fri, 07 May 2010 12:37:47 +0000

Dude, you just saved my ass with this post. The post_status=future was exactly what I was looking for!!! THANKS!

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Danny Banks

Danny Banks — Thu, 29 Apr 2010 07:44:47 +0000

Thank you so much for this article! I’ve been trying so hard to find a good way to use wordpress to display events, and used a number of plugins that just added more work to add an event. This makes it so much easier for me as a developer and for the users to post events.

You’ll be able to see this in action at:
starryeyedmusic.com (new design will be up may 9th)

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Luis

Luis — Sun, 07 Feb 2010 21:28:10 +0000

Cool thread - I’m trying to apply the future posts idea to my site, but it’s using a function to display the posts in the location where I want them. I’ve tried messing around with the code a bit to see if I could modify it, but always get some PHP error. Here’s the function that displays 3 latest news posts on my homepage (www.musicvancouver.com):

function print_news_posts($count=3){
global $cat_news, $more;
$more = 1;
query_posts(’showposts=’.$count.’&cat=’.$cat_news);
if (have_posts()) :
echo ‘What\’s Happening’;
while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>

endif;
}

What I’d prefer to do is print the next 3 upcoming (future posts) events, in ascending order, but can’t figure out the syntax with this particular function (not knowing much PHP and all).

Any help would be greatly appreciated.

Regards,

Luis

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Stanley Dumanig

Stanley Dumanig — Sat, 05 Dec 2009 15:53:53 +0000

I have this problem too but I created my own plugin to fix this. NO hacks and NO need to edit your templates. Just install it and it solves the problem.

Check: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/show-future-posts-on-single-post/

Running example is at http://www.FredRadio.com

Comment on Display an Event or Gig List Using Wordpress by Justin Grevich

Justin Grevich — Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:10:56 +0000

I ran into this same problem my self. The wp-core code does not allow for future posts to be queried by non-admins in single.php. The most simple solution I found is to make a custom 404.php template (since this is where the query will be redirected to after it cannot find what it’s looking for with single.php).

Take a look at dameer’s comment here: http://wordpress.org/support/topic/276841

Best of luck, and boy do I love ruby after all these PHP hacks.