MySQL conditional ORDER BY ASC/DESC for date column

Question

I need a MySQL conditional ORDER BY statement for a datetime field. I have a table with posts which I would like to order in the following way: all future posts

Answer 1

How about something like this? Select twice and union the results.

Select * from (SELECT post_status, post_date, post_title 
FROM wp_posts WHERE post_status IN ('future') 
ORDER BY post_status ASC  ) alias1  
UNION
Select * from (SELECT post_status, post_date, post_title 
FROM wp_posts WHERE post_status IN ('publish') 
ORDER BY post_status DESC ) alias2