[EventCalendar] re: Showing the event post ONLY on the day it occurs

[Alex Tingle]

Dave,

That's an excellent plug-in. Less is more! May I make one suggestion? Increase the priority of the filter, so this gets run earlier than other plug-ins:

  add_filter('posts_where', 'wp_future_posts_plugin',1);

-Alex

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On Mon, 4 Dec 2006 12:54:30 -0500
Dave Warker <davew1 at mac.com> wrote:

> > How do you make EventCalendar display the post corresponding to an
> > event ONLY on the day it occurs, but otherwise hide it from view on
> > the front page?
> 
> Hi Alessandro. I've run into the same problem. In theory you can  
> enter a future post date, the day of your event, and it will not  
> appear until that date. However, by default Wordpress won't display  
> future dated posts to anonymous (non logged-in) users so when they  
> click on a link to see a future dated event they instead get a "no  
> matching item" message. Previously there was a hack to Wordpress to  
> work around this but Alex has (rightly) decided its a Wordpress issue  
> and should be dealt with as such.
> 
> There is a simple plug-in called Future Posts:
> 
> 	http://www.figby.com/archives/2005/04/12/wordpress-15-plug-in-view- 
> future-posts/
> 
> that is supposed to fix this exact issue but so far I haven't been  
> able to get it to work, at least on the latest Wordpress version on  
> my site. There are hints on fixes it in the comments on that page but  
> even after correcting for mangling of the posted code it still isn't  
> working.
> 
> It operates by adding a filter to the SQL commands used to fetch  
> entries that removes the clause that specifically checks that the  
> post date is <= the current time. I've verified my modified and  
> simplified version of the plug-in is in fact doing that, but the  
> posts still don't appear for anonymous users.
> 
> Here is my test plug-in (between the // ----- comment lines.) The  
> original version had several options but for testing I've hard-coded  
> it to assume what I want: show future posts when they are viewed as a  
> single item. It is saved as futureposts.php, placed in the plug-ins  
> folder and activated:
> 
> // ----- futureposts.php:
> <?php
> 
> function wp_future_posts_plugin($content)
> {
>      if (is_single())
> 	$content = preg_replace("/ AND post_date_gmt <= \'.+\'/", "",  
> $content);
>      return $content;
> }
> 
> add_filter('posts_where', 'wp_future_posts_plugin');
> 
> ?>
> // -----
> 
> Not a whole lot to it. The preg_replace line is the key, it matches  
> the portion of the command that excludes future posts and replaces it  
> with an empty string. Maybe someone else better versed in Wordpress  
> SQL usage can see the problem.
> 
> This is NOT the official futureposts plug-in code so please don't  
> distribute it as such. When there is a working fix it should be  
> submitted to the original author so he can incorporate it.
> 
> Dave Warker <davew1 at mac.com>
> 
> 
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