How to: List scheduled posts

Here’s a good idea to make your readers visit your blog more often, or suscribe to your rss feed: What about listing the title of your scheduled posts? If you’re interested to do so, just read this recipe.

Achieving this recipe is very easy: Just paste the following code anywhere on your template where you want your scheduled posts to be listed. You can change the max number or displayed posts by changing the value of showposts in the query.

<?php
$my_query = new WP_Query('post_status=future&order=DESC&showposts=5');
if ($my_query->have_posts()) {
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
        $do_not_duplicate = $post->ID; ?>
        <li><?php the_title(); ?></li>
    <?php endwhile;
}
?>

Credits goes to Pascal Birchler for this awesome recipe!

26 Responses

Rarst

Nov 11 2008 21:25

Thanks for this snippet! I am often scheduling posts ahead and was thinking abotu doing exactly this.

jbj

Nov 11 2008 21:45

Glad it helped! I love this recipe

Rarst

Nov 11 2008 21:53

Hm, I thought about it a bit and need some follow-up. This will only output li-s, right? So if I make heading and have no scheduled posts I’ll end up with lonely heading and empty ul?

Is it hard to make it output whole block (with heading and ul) and make it output nothing if there are no scheduled posts at moment?

jbj

Nov 11 2008 23:36

@Rarst: No it isn’t hard at all
Just add your title and <ul> element below the if ($my_query->have_posts()) line.

Rarst

Nov 11 2008 23:44

@jbj

Tried that, I get “unexpected <” error. Clueless in PHP, I keep wanting to read on it and never get to that.

Rarst

Nov 12 2008 00:03

Never mind, solved. Had to add question mark tags to exclude text output from php code. Not sure it’s right but works.

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