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1. shakingpaper
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hi there,

   I have a loop (an events loop) where I want to show upcoming events. It is almost working but it is showing the posts that are farthest in the future. I have tried sorting by ASC and DESC but nothing seems to change.

   get_posts('cat=4&showposts=2&post_status=future&order=ASC');

   Any thoughts?

   Thanks!

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   This worked just fine for me in my sidebar.php using the WordPress Default theme:

   <?php
   $args = array(
     'cat' => 3,
     'post_status' => 'future',
     'numberposts' => 3
     );
   $posts=get_posts($args);
   if ($posts) {
     foreach($posts as $post) {
       setup_postdata($post);
       ?>
       <?php the_time('m.d.y') ?> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a>
       <?php }
     }
   ?>

   Make sure you don't have any plugins causing the problem.

3. shakingpaper
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Hmmm, that didn't seem to do the trick.

   Here is the whole loop/argument:

   <?php
   	    global $post;
   	    $the_newest = get_posts('cat=4&amp;showposts=2&amp;post_status=future&amp;order=ASC');
   	    $the_newer = get_posts('cat=3&amp;showposts=2');
   	?>
   
   		<ul id="events">
   			<?php foreach($the_newest as $post) :
     			setup_postdata($post);  ?>
   			<li class="news_post_1" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   			<h2><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>"><?php if (strlen($post->post_title) > 25) { echo substr(the_title($before = '', $after = '', FALSE), 0, 25) . '...';} else {the_title();} ?></a></h2>
   			<p><?php the_date('l j F, Y') ?> | <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">More...</a></p>
   			</li>
   			<?php endforeach; ?>
   		</ul>
   
   		<ul id="news">
   			<?php foreach($the_newer as $post) :
   			setup_postdata($post);  ?>
   			<li class="news_post_1" id="post-<?php the_ID(); ?>">
   			<h2><a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>"><?php if (strlen($post->post_title) > 25) { echo substr(the_title($before = '', $after = '', FALSE), 0, 25) . '...';} else {the_title();} ?></a></h2>
   			<p><?php the_date('l j F, Y') ?> | <a href="<?php echo get_permalink(); ?>">More...</a></p>
   			</li>
   			<?php endforeach; ?>
   		</ul>

   Could the second loop be interfering?

4. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   It is almost working but it is showing the posts that are farthest in the future. I have tried sorting by ASC and DESC but nothing seems to change.

   I guess you need to better explain what it is you are trying to achieve.

5. shakingpaper
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Basically I have a footer on a site that has two sets of post feeds.

   I have an linked image here (site isn't live yet)
   http://test.shakingpaper.com.au/image/footer.png

   The events are all in the future but the loop is showing the posts that are farthest in the future when I would like to show the ones that are coming up closest to the current time.

   Hope that makes sense.

6. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 3 years ago #

   Ah, see the issue...it looks like there is no valid DATE field to sort on as the date for those 'future' posts is not yet SET.

   Maybe you can do 'orderby'=> ID and 'order'=> ASC

7. shakingpaper
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #

   I ended up just using this plugin: http://coffee2code.com/wp-plugins/get-upcoming-or-past-posts/
   And it is working fine. Very customisable so all good.

   Thanks for your time and advice.

8. sambo123
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Hi- I'm having a slightly similar issue. I have a newsletter that lists future events. I want the newsletter to only show the next 7 posts in the future. When it does the count, it also includes previous posts in the count but doesn't dispay them.
   So, if I set numberposts=7, and there's 4 posts that appear in the past, it shows the next 3 posts. Does that makse sense? What I want is for it to show the next 7 posts in the future, regardless of how many posts appear in the past. Any help would be greatly appreciated.
   Here's the code:
   

   <?php
   $lastposts = get_posts('numberposts=7&category=4&order=ASC&post_status=future,publish');
    foreach($lastposts as $post) :
       setup_postdata($post);
   	if(is_category('newsletter')) {
   		if(strtotime($post->post_date) < time())
   			continue;
   			}
   ?>
   <!-- stuff goes here -->
    <?php endforeach;   ?>

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