Title: Displaying Future Posts Using a Custom Select Query
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Displaying Future Posts Using a Custom Select Query

 *  Resolved [Nathan Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nreynolds/)
 * (@nreynolds)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-future-posts-using-a-custom-select-query/)
 * This question revolves are the codex article, [Displaying Posts Using a Custom Select Query](http://codex.wordpress.org/Displaying_Posts_Using_a_Custom_Select_Query).
 * I’m using a category to display upcoming events by using `<?php query_posts('
   showposts=10&post_status=future'); ?>` on the specific categories template.
 * So what I’m trying to do is have custom fields for the speakers for the events.
   I want to create a page for each speaker, with a list of the upcoming (and previous
   but that’s easy) events.
 * However the query used in the codex uses `wposts.post_status = 'publish'` (which
   works great for past events) but if I use `wposts.post_status = 'future'` it 
   displays the display else.
 * What can I do?

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-future-posts-using-a-custom-select-query/#post-1095693)
 * If you use query_posts (or get_posts or new WP_Query) then in your loop you will
   have access to the post ID and that’s what you’d need to retrieve the custom 
   fields for that post/page.
 * Related:
    [Using_Custom_Fields](http://codex.wordpress.org/Using_Custom_Fields)
 *  Thread Starter [Nathan Reynolds](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nreynolds/)
 * (@nreynolds)
 * [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-future-posts-using-a-custom-select-query/#post-1095694)
 * Wow, I’m stupid.
 * No wonder it wouldn’t call future posts if I have `wposts.post_date < NOW()`

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 * [post_status](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post_status/)

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 * Last activity: [16 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-future-posts-using-a-custom-select-query/#post-1095694)
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