Displaying upcoming/future posts

[Puneeth Chaganti]

Hello all,

I've recently added a feature[1] to be able to schedule posts in the
future. You can do this by setting the date metadata to a future
date.

Now, I would like to add a view, where a list of upcoming posts is
displayed. I'm not sure, what's the best way to go about this.

I have two routes in mind. First, modify the `Indexes` task and add a
upcoming_post_list. Second, add a new task, that writes the upcoming
posts into a json file; use javascript to add this list to any page
you choose.

Any comments/suggestions are welcome.

Thanks,
Puneeth

[1] -https://github.com/ralsina/nikola/pull/486

[Roberto Alsina]

On 08/05/13 13:24, Puneeth Chaganti wrote:
> Hello all,
>
> I've recently added a feature[1] to be able to schedule posts in the
> future. You can do this by setting the date metadata to a future
> date.
>
> Now, I would like to add a view, where a list of upcoming posts is
> displayed. I'm not sure, what's the best way to go about this.
>
> I have two routes in mind. First, modify the `Indexes` task and add a
> upcoming_post_list. Second, add a new task, that writes the upcoming
> posts into a json file; use javascript to add this list to any page
> you choose.
>
> Any comments/suggestions are welcome.
>

In my mind the future posts are sort of like auto-expiring drafts that
turn into real posts. Do other blogging things actually show the
upcoming posts?

[Puneeth Chaganti]

On Wed, May 8, 2013 at 9:57 PM, Roberto Alsina
<ral...@netmanagers.com.ar> wrote:
> In my mind the future posts are sort of like auto-expiring drafts that
> turn into real posts. Do other blogging things actually show the
> upcoming posts?

For a site/blog, where posts occur in a schedule, I think it is useful
to show a list of future posts. I have seen it on a few wordpress
blogs, but am unable to find them now, with a quick search. But, I
found a wordpress plugin[1] and a related thread [2].

Also, now that I think of it, there should probably be a config option
to allow publishing future date posts to be published right now,
instead of in the future.

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[1] - http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/upcoming-posts/
[2] - http://wordpress.org/support/topic/displaying-futurescheduled-posts-1

[allan bailey]

You still need to deploy your blog via cron or something right?  Or are you thinking of having some javascript magic suddently start displaying the future post?

-a

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[Roberto Alsina]

On 08/05/13 13:46, allan bailey wrote:

You still need to deploy your blog via cron or something right?  Or are you thinking of having some javascript magic suddently start displaying the future post?

The first.

[Puneeth Chaganti]

So, does anybody have any suggestions on how to go about implementing this?