Title: can search engine query future posts?
Last modified: August 18, 2016

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# can search engine query future posts?

 *  [ScottCoombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottcoombs/)
 * (@scottcoombs)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-search-engine-query-future-posts/)
 * I’m using my blog as an event calendar, so a lot of my posts are posted to the
   future. I want the search function to query these future posts, but how?

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 *  [Lorelle](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lorelle/)
 * (@lorelle)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-search-engine-query-future-posts/#post-257634)
 * The issue of future posts is that they aren’t “alive” on the blog until after
   they have been posted. Searching these and getting a result would only take people
   to a page not found.
 * Using WordPress as an event calendar, and posting about things in the future 
   is different from “future scheduled posts”.
 * Am I on the right track?
 *  Thread Starter [ScottCoombs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/scottcoombs/)
 * (@scottcoombs)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-search-engine-query-future-posts/#post-257710)
 * Yes, except that I create a post in the event category and set a timestamp that
   is in the future. They are not handled like future scheduled posts because I 
   am using the event calendar plugin so that posts in the “event” category will
   appear when I browse the category. The appear when browsing the category, but
   they don’t appear in a search.
 * Can I modify the date restrictions of the search query?
 *  [nearlythere](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nearlythere/)
 * (@nearlythere)
 * [20 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/can-search-engine-query-future-posts/#post-258136)
 * hello, did you ever figure this one out?
 * i was wondering if it would be possible to create a ‘separate’ search just for
   future posts…
 * should it be a plugin?
 * can anyone tell me what road to go down?

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