The Future Is Now
Allow future-time-stamped posts to appear live on your site immediately.
4.7(13 reviews)
·1.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 month agoAs of April 2026, The Future Is Now is a WordPress time plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 4.7/5 rating from 13 reviews. It has been downloaded 37K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.6+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2007. Recently updated within the last 3 months. Downloads are down 12% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Reading Time WP.
4.7/513 reviews
1.0K+active installs
0%resolved
19 yearssince 2007
Overview
A WordPress plugin aimed primarily at events sites, where you want to be able to timestamp posts in the future but have them appear immediately (by default, WordPress will not display a future timestamped post until its go-live date rolls around). Without changing database, this plugin sets the post_status field to “publish” rather than “future” when publishing a post, even if its timestamp is in the future.
Note: This 2.0 version requires WordPress 3.5 or higher. If you need this to work with versions lower than 3.5, grab the 1.0 version from svn: https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/the-future-is-now/tags/1.0/
Note
This seemingly simple plugin was graciously written by the magical Ryan Boren when I was facing a deadline. He doesn’t have time to maintain/host i…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
Browken
·3 years ago
I’ve been using this for years and it was great for my purposes, but agree that now using gutenberg editor, posts are marked future, so the plugin is no longer working.
Broken
by 7am·4 years ago
I liked this plugin. But it seems not working any longer. Too bad.
it does what it says
by mariken·6 years ago
If you just need a simple and light-weight solution for your events, this is the way to go.
If your theme or page-builder does not give you the option to change the order of the future posts/events, do add ‘reorder post’ plugin, and you might also need
‘exclude from blog’.
A small and useful plugin
by certainlyakey·8 years ago
Does what it says without much trouble or overhead.
awesome little plugin
by Jakob Helmer·8 years ago
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<p class=””>still works! even after 10 years! really happy with that, because our site is less or more depending on this small plugin …</p>
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- This topic was modified 2 years, 2 months ago by Jakob Helmer.
Download Trends
Today: 8Yesterday: 9This week: 63Period total: 7K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 5.6+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | false+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.0
77.0%
v3.3
20.5%
v1.0
2.5%
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Changelog
3.3.8
- add support for Lissa’s Newsletter plugin (legacy with email-create) to include future posts.
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