Title: Display Future-Dated Posts without a plugin
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# Display Future-Dated Posts without a plugin

 *  Resolved [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/)
 * Hi,
 * Is there any way to have WordPress display future-dated posts without the use
   of a plugin such as EventCalendar? I just simply need the posts to display, I
   don’t need the added bloat of a plugin.
 * Thanks in advance for any help.

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 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415080)
 * Without modifying the wordpress code, there isn’t I’m afraid.
 *  Thread Starter [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415085)
 * Is there much to modify in the code? What would I need to change?
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415086)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415087)
 * 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…
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415089)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415091)
 * It’s for [this site](http://inertiawebdesign.com/ioof).
 * 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!
 *  [maerk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/maerk/)
 * (@maerk)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415099)
 * 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.
 *  Thread Starter [oh_hello](https://wordpress.org/support/users/oh_hello/)
 * (@oh_hello)
 * [19 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415102)
 * 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.
 *  [Steph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/steph/)
 * (@steph)
 * [19 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-future-dated-posts-without-a-plugin/#post-415290)
 * 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.

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