Thesis Tutorial – Display Scheduled Posts

I was checking out how I would manually diplay future scheduled posts on my homepage with the Thesis theme after checking out the WordPress plugin Display Scheduled Posts and came up with the following solution.

I have nothing against the author of the plugin, but I like to keep my list of plugins installed to a minimum and this is one way to do so. I actually downloaded the plugin and checked how it was done and changed it to a function that can be called.

After some time of trying a few things, I had it working and even put it in a coloured box. You can copy the basics of the code and styling and change it where you want or need to.

This customization is for the homepage and will display after the teasers section. You could adapt this function to display on any page you desire.

Example of scheduled posts output

As you can see from the image below, the scheduled posts section will display after the teasers on the home page. This will display the title of the post as well as the date it is scheduled for.

Your function code

All you need to do is copy the function and place it in your custom_functions.php file. You can change the heading and the paragraph wording that will appear as it displays my site details. You can also display this on category pages by adding is_category() within the first if statement.

Your CSS Styling Code

All you need to do is copy the css styling and place it in your custom.css file. You can play around with the background colour of the box, the box width and the font size.

Download:

Thesis Tutorial - Display Scheduled Posts

The download was made available on 25 November 2009 and is in zip format. The file size is 984 bytes and has currently been downloaded 353 times.

I have edited this post and put the CSS and PHP in a text file. Download the zipped file and get it working on your site in less than 10 minutes.

Other Thesis Customizations I’ve posted about

I have written a few posts about customizing Thesis and you could go have a look and see what you would like to do.

• Cool CSS trick for Thesis
• Thesis Customizations for Sitemap and Archives Pages
• 3 Basic Thesis Customizations

Or you could go visit one of my guest posts over at ThesisThemeHQ.com

• Tutorial: Customizing Thesis – Standard to Unique in 6 Easy Steps

This customization is not only for Thesis, but can be adapted for other themes which have a functions file.

Question and opinions

I would like to know what your opinion is about showing scheduled posts and if you would use this method ? I also wanted to use this, but I changed my mind as I did not want others to see what I was going to be publishing in the near future. I thought they might post about the same topics before mine was published.

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