Without modifying the wordpress code, there isn’t I’m afraid.
Is there much to modify in the code? What would I need to change?
To be honest, I don’t know exactly what you’d need to change, but I think there would be quite a bit to change, yes.
A plugin wouldn’t add much bloat, however, since you would be using it all the time. Bloat is only a problem when there are large bits of codes that are unused for a long time, for instance I had Adhesive installed, but never used it once — this is bloat because it’s unecessary.
The only plugin I’ve seen that could do this is the EventCalendar plugin and it just seems like overkill for what I need to do.
I suppose if that’s my only option though I don’t have a choice…
What were you looking to do? I’m quite familiar with wordpress and I know how to write plugins, I might be able to put something together for you.
It’s for this site.
Basically all I’m trying to do is have the “Upcoming Events” page as a regular blog. Except all of the posts will be in the future.
I really appreciate all your help so far. If we don’t know which WordPress files to edit, I don’t know if we can come up with a solution, but you never know!
The trouble is that there might be more than one query to the database, and I’ve worked with date-related queries to the DB and they’re not always as straightforward as you would think.
I’d be interested in writing a plugin for grabbing future-dated posts, but it would take quite a lot of time, which I don’t have much of.
I’ll see what I can do though, it might be a few weeks, maybe longer, but I’ll post it in this thread when I’m done. But don’t hold your breath 😉 I’m not known for my excellent time-keeping. You’d do well to look for an alternative solution in the meantime, hehe.
It seems like a common enough problem to warrant a plugin, so I’m sure yours would be well-received!
Thanks again for the help and good luck finding the time.
I guess I’ll turn back to EventCalendar to solve my problem.
Has anybody found a way to do this? I need an “upcoming events” page, which we would like to manage with posts having a future date. I’ve installed EventCalendar but it doesn’t seem to be totally adapted to what we need.
