i had a brainwave and realised (duh) that i could control the restriction in the templates. profusely sorry for cluttering your page! you can delete them if you like!

thank you.

$content = preg_replace(“/AND post_date_gmt post2cat.”category_id in (1,2,3)”, $content);

at least this does not bring up errors, but it doesn’t make the future posts show up either. not sure what to try next. it looks like greek to me.

thanks for any help you have time to offer.

i’ve tried a bunch of different things… but finally i can’t figure out where to put the code you paste above. the best i got were SQL errors (when it didn’t break my site)…

here’s one place i pasted it:

$content = preg_replace(“/AND post_date_gmt post2cat.”category_id in (1, 2, 23)”, $content);

which gives this error:

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts WHERE 1=1AND category_id in (1, 2, 23) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10

also:

$content = preg_replace(“/AND post_date_gmt post2cat.”category_id in (1,2,3)”, “AND “.$wpdb->post2cat.”category_id in (1, 2, 23)”, $content);

which gives this error:

SELECT DISTINCT * FROM wp_posts LEFT JOIN wp_post2cat ON (wp_posts.ID = wp_post2cat.post_id) LEFT JOIN wp_categories ON (wp_post2cat.category_id = wp_categories.cat_ID) WHERE 1=1AND category_id in (1, 2, 23) GROUP BY wp_posts.ID ORDER BY post_date DESC LIMIT 0, 10

sorry to be annoying, and i respect your busy-ness..

but can you advise me on what this line should look like?

thank you!

AND ".$wpdb->post2cat."category_id in (1,2,3)

where you will replace the (1,2,3) with your category id’s….

Should work. Not tested but….

Good luck

i want to be able restrict the nearfutureposts to only work in 2 categories. so, i tried wrapping the function in an if statement…

… “if ( in_category(‘events’) || in_category(‘festivals’)) { “…

but this does not work.

do you have any advice?

i also thought about making a custom category template, but once activated, nearfuture does it on every category of course.

any advice you can offer would be great.

But you can try to specify a “starting date” or a number of days per category….

Do you see what I mean ?

If not, just let me know….

i just wonder if you can point me in the right direction to customize your plugin.

it looks like i need to restrict to work only in certain categories, and then, make the old posts disappear… I first started with: “is there a way to make it so ‘old’ posts don’t appear?”

now, i can’t understand how the plugin works, but i have this funny feeling that making ‘old’ posts not appear would change the behaviour across the whole site… so one would need to restrict it to only specified categories.

i was also wondering how can i change the direction, ASC or DSC. but then, i might just make custom category templates, and then have them appear in reverse order!