Prevent jekyll for loop from skipping future posts

Question

I have a jekyll website with a blog section that has this:

{% for post in site.posts %}
  ... display post ...
{% endfor %}

This blog section correctly skips posts that are dated in the future.

In another part of my website I want to be able list posts that have a specific "Event" tag, regardless of the date of the post (so even posts in the future should be shown). I have something like this for now:

{% for post in site.posts %}
  {% if post.tag contains "Event" %}
    ... display post ...
  {% endif %}
{% endfor %}

However this loop skips the posts that have a date in the future. How can I prevent this (only for this loop)? Solutions like setting published: true would not work because the blog section would start showing those posts as well.

juicy-g juicy-g · Accepted Answer · 2022-02-06T14:02:42

Unfortunately, the future option is a build configuration option. This means you will have to set it to true, otherwise future posts are skipped from the site.posts collection during build.

Here's a workaround:

After you have set future: true in the _config.yml file, in your blog section, filter the posts like this:

{% assign filtered_posts = site.posts | where_exp: "post", "post.date <= site.time" %}
{% assign sorted_posts = filtered_posts | sort: 'post.date' %}
     
{% for post in sorted_posts %}
  ... display post ...
{% endfor %}

In your other section, you should then be able to list all posts with the Event tag including the future ones using the second code block in your question above.

Prevent jekyll for loop from skipping future posts

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