Display Future Posts in Wordpress

by Shawn Jooste on July 2, 2009

Wordpress has a feature where you can write a post today, and set it to publish  at some date and time in the future.

There is a way to display the upcoming posts in Wordpress, and a great way to use this feature is to get RSS Subscribers.

If people can see the subject of the post and there is a link encouraging you to subscribe via RSS so they don’t miss anything then you can drive up your RSS numbers significantly.

here is the code you need:

<?php query_posts(’showposts=10&post_status=future’); ?>
<?php if ( have_posts() ) : while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); ?>
<h4><?php the_title(); ?></h4>
<span><?php the_time(’j. F Y’); ?></span></p>
<?php endwhile;
else: ?><p>No future events scheduled.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

This can be put anywhere in your template, but you could easily integrate it in the header of the template, right where your RSS subscribe button is.

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Using #Wordpress as a Large CMS

by Shawn Jooste on June 27, 2009

While Wordpress was originally designed as a weblog platform, it’s grown to accommodate more and more content, and now has the flexibility of being used as a CMS.

The New York Times uses Wordpress for their site, and has done it very very effectively. While Wordpress can accommodate just about any data on the back end, it’s the combination of Themes, Widgets, and Plugins that allows you to truly leverage it as a CMS.

Rather than go into great detail on how to use Wordpress for multiple content type systems I will point you to a post that I have referred many people to over time, and sill go back to from time to time.

48 Unique Ways to Use Wordpress

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The New #Wordpress 2.8 Widget Interface

June 13, 2009

Wordpress 2.8 has a few nice new bits and pieces. One of them is the new Widget Interface.
Firstly, you can see both your side bars on the rigt. So you don’t have the select a side bar and then update.
Secondly, you can drap and drop them. Nice
Thirdly, there is an inactive widget section [...]

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Why Do You Blog?

June 5, 2009

So here’s the question:
Why Do You Blog?
Why bother. It’s hard work when you think about it. You have to setup your blog, write content, moderate comments, etc etc etc.
So there are a number of reasons we blog, and I’d like to hear from you why you blog.
1. It’s personal, and you just want a place [...]

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My #FollowFriday Recommendations

May 29, 2009

@cluckhoff – Runs a PR company in Cape Town, loves gadgets and does brilliant work
@MelodyMaker – Cause she’s an awesome chick and a good friend
@muscalmover – Her music recommendations are the bomb

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YouTube Ads

May 29, 2009

Maybe I’m just slow on the uptake, but I just spotted ads on YouTube Videos:

Further Reading

Related Blogs on YouTube Ads
More YouTube Cannes Young Lions Ads | The Inspiration Room Daily
Online Fundraising Blog » Non-profits, Click Here: YouTube ads for …
YouTube Cannes Young Lions 48 hour ads | The Inspiration Room Daily
Mature thinking needed in Digital [...]

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The #Seacom Cable Has Been Laid

May 29, 2009

So yesterday a bunch of bloggers / twitterers / journos went and did a site inspection of the Seacom cable. There is a ton of stuff on twitter, you can follow it here.
I want to make a couple of observations regading this little Seacom effort.
1. The cable is TINY! I will admit I was expecting [...]

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Some Q&A

May 28, 2009

I don’t trust internet marketers
I heard that a few times yesterday. Truth is, I don’t either. I have seen dozens upon dozens of guys trying to sell some system that makes you money really quickly online.
And it’s all rubbish. Every time. I’ve been in this game long enough to know that NO ONE makes money [...]

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The Best Coffee in the World

May 28, 2009

I drink a lot of coffee, in a lot of different places. Coffee shops are my hang out and it’s where I get the most productive work done. So I get to taste a lot of different coffee.
Depending on how big the coffee shop and how many franchises they have  is generally a good indication [...]

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Keyword Density

May 26, 2009

We’ve discussed links, which form the cornerstone of any of your SEO efforts. Today I want to look at Keyword Density.
Once you have tons of inbound links to your site, search engines will begin indexing your content and according to what they index, you will rank.
So as you can imagine, having the right content on [...]

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