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The Future Is Now

The Future Is Now

Content Management Content Scheduling & Expiration

The Future Is Now is a WordPress plugin for Content Scheduling & Expiration. It ranks #19 of 34 in that group by active installs and was last updated 9 months ago.

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Slug the-future-is-now

1K Active installs As the directory reports it, rounded to a band
4.7 Rating out of 5 From 14 ratings
22 Releases Since 17 December 2007
Feb 2026 Last release 9 months ago

Maintenance check

Is The Future Is Now still maintained?

Mostly - but at least one sign below is worth checking before you rely on it.

  • No release for a while. The last one was 9 months ago.
  • Slightly behind on testing. Tested up to 6.9.11, while current plugins are tested on 7.1.
  • Well rated. 4.7 out of 5 from 14 ratings.

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Standing

More installed than 85.6% of the directory

Ahead of 40,841 of the 47,734 plugins that report an install count at all. An install figure on its own says nothing; this is what it is worth.

85.6% Percentile by installs Among plugins that report an install count
40,841 Plugins it is ahead of Fewer active installs than this one
6,892 Plugins ahead of it More active installs, or the same published band
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The directory rounds install counts hard and publishes them as bands, so two plugins showing the same number are not necessarily level. The percentile is computed over the plugins that report a count at all, which excludes the quarter of the directory sitting on the reporting floor.

Details

The record

Everything the directory publishes about this plugin, as it was last read.

Current version
3.3.8
Requires WordPress
5.6
Tested up to
6.9.11
Added to the directory
17 December 2007
Last updated
8 February 2026
Contributors
4
Author
xjlin0

Its own tags

  • events
  • Future
  • posts
  • time

Free text typed by the plugin author. The statistics page explains why they are not a taxonomy.

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