Make future posts visible to the public—not just within WP_Query

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1. In short, you can make future posts visible by telling WordPress to mark them as 'published' instead of 'scheduled'. You do this by using a future_post hook, which gets called when a post changes status. Each post type automatically gets its own future hook; since the custom post type I’m using is event, I can use the future_event hook. Here is the code:

   function setup_future_hook() {
   // Replace native future_post function with replacement
       remove_action('future_event','_future_post_hook');
       add_action('future_event','publish_future_post_now');
   }
   
   function publish_future_post_now($id) {
   // Set new post's post_status to "publish" rather than "future."
       wp_publish_post($id);
   }
   
   add_action('init', 'setup_future_hook');
   

   This solution came from this SE question: Marking future dated post as published

   A caveat with this approach

   The caveat I will add is that this makes it more difficult to get a
   loop of just future posts. Before, I could simply use 'post_status'
=> 'future'; but now, since we’ve set future posts’ post_status to
   published, that doesn’t work.

   To get around this you can use a posts_where filter on your loop
   (for example, see the date range examples on the codex here:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Time_Parameters),
   or you can compare the current date to the post date, something like
   this:

       // get the event time
       $event_time = get_the_time('U', $post->ID);
   
       // get the current time
       $server_time = date('U');
   
       // if the event time is older than (less than)
       // the current time, do something
       if ( $server_time > $event_time ){
          // do something
       }
   

   However, neither of these techniques is as easy as having a separate
   post_status for future posts. Perhaps a custom post_status would
   be a good solution here.

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2. I would like to give my answer all this time later. In the case of making all the ‘future’ posts for the ‘events’ post type visible to the public, I found this solution:

   add_filter('get_post_status', function($post_status, $post) {
       if ($post->post_type == 'events' && $post_status == 'future') {
           return "publish";
       }
       return $post_status;
   }, 10, 2);
   

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3. For me the given snippet didn’t worked, there were some errors in the post-edit.php, but I guess that $postatt is now null in 4.6.1.

   Anyways that’s the final solution that worked for me like a charm.

   add_filter('the_posts', 'show_all_future_posts');
   
   function show_all_future_posts($posts)
   {
      global $wp_query, $wpdb;
   
      if(is_single() && $wp_query->post_count == 0)
      {
         $posts = $wpdb->get_results($wp_query->request);
      }
   
      return $posts;
   }
   

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4. I forced the publish status from functions.php of a child theme

   global $wpdb;
   $wpdb->query("update ".$wpdb->prefix."posts set post_status='publish' where post_status='future' and post_type in ('post','customposttype1','customposttype2')");
   

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