Listing future posts together with normal posts

Question

In my blog I'm displaying lists of posts from every category I have in the homepage. I have a column for each category. The code is this:

<?php
$categories = array('3', '4', '5');

foreach ($categories as $category):
?>
        <div class="four columns">
            <h2 id="first_column" class="category_title"><?php echo  get_the_category_by_ID($category); ?></h2>
        <div class="post-list">
<?php 
global $post;
$args = array('numberposts' => '3', 'category' => $category, 'post_status' => array('publish', 'future' ));
$myposts = get_posts($args);

Now I'd need to display also posts occurring in the future. They are called events, I guess. I know I cannot use the wordpress status flag of the posts, because it has another purpose.

I also tried the Event Manager plugin, but I can't find any way to mix these custom posts with the normal ones. Any suggestion?

Answer 1

Add the post type parameter to your get_posts args.

$args = array(
  'numberposts' => '3', 
  'category' => $category, 
  'post_status' => array('publish', 'future' )
  'post_type' => array('post','slug-for-the-event-manager-post-type')
);

$myposts = get_posts($args);