Title: [Plugin: More Fields] Date field
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# [Plugin: More Fields] Date field

 *  [c.note](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cnote/)
 * (@cnote)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/)
 * anyone figured out a way to have a calendar style picker on the more fields date
   field type. i dont mind the date format input box but the site admin user would
   prefer a calendar type picker. must be possible?

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 *  Plugin Author [Kal Ström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalstrom/)
 * (@kalstrom)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790227)
 * Depending on the browser you’re using the HTML5 date field actually is a calendar
   type picker.
 * There’s a page for [Web Form 2.0 input types](http://miketaylr.com/pres/html5/forms2.html).
 * Test it with your browser. We actually had a date picker field in plugin form
   before, but we haven’t updated it to 2.0 because it is going to be supported 
   in all major browsers any way.
 * But you could look into updating it yourself.
 *  Thread Starter [c.note](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cnote/)
 * (@cnote)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790229)
 * that is a bit strange as i see the 2.0 version on the link you sent but in my
   wp-admin install of the more fields plugin, i just see a basic text field. os
   x 10.6.5 safari 5.0.3.
 * why does it default to 1582-10-15 as an initial date that isnt very useful to
   anyone, i think ill look at a way to get it to default today’s date. surely that
   must be possible otherwise html5 isnt really worthwhile.
 * great plugin by the way, the date picker bit isnt that important everything else
   is super!
 *  Plugin Author [Kal Ström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalstrom/)
 * (@kalstrom)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790232)
 * 1582 is actually browser default it seems. Strange though.
 *  Thread Starter [c.note](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cnote/)
 * (@cnote)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790275)
 * I updated the plugin and my wp install to incorporate this html5 date tool: [http://flowplayer.org/tools/dateinput/index.html](http://flowplayer.org/tools/dateinput/index.html)
 * all good!
 *  Plugin Author [Kal Ström](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kalstrom/)
 * (@kalstrom)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790277)
 * Cool. If you’d like I could share your solution on the [More Plugins](http://more-plugins.se/)
   site.
 * If you’d like to share the code that is.
 *  Thread Starter [c.note](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cnote/)
 * (@cnote)
 * [15 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790282)
 * i have no idea about plugin development so my solution is kind of an ad hoc one
   and i didn’t actually have to change anything in the plugin but im happy to explain
   what i did.
 * i added this to the functions.php:
    function admin_register_head() { echo “<link
   rel=’stylesheet’ type=’text/css’ href=’path to calendar widget style sheet’ /
   >\n”; echo “<script type=’text/javascript’ src=’path to calendar widget js’></
   script>\n”; } add_action(‘admin_head’, ‘admin_register_head’);
 * i also added this to wp-admin/admin-footer.php:
    <script>$(‘:date’).dateinput({
   format:’yyyy-mm-dd’});</script>
 * it would be much better if it was all self-contained within the more-fields plugin,
   maybe this is something someone else who has knowledge of plugin development 
   could do.
 * hopefully this solution can be of use to other people. i tested it on Safari (
   Mac and PC),Firefox (Mac and PC), Chrome (Mac and PC) and IE (PC).
 *  Thread Starter [c.note](https://wordpress.org/support/users/cnote/)
 * (@cnote)
 * [14 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790387)
 * update on this, with 3.2.1 its causes an issue which means the admin widget drag
   and drop doesnt work so ive stopped using it and just going with the default 
   date field.
 * it still really needs a proper date picker though
 *  [Francesco Canovi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thedarkmist/)
 * (@thedarkmist)
 * [14 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-more-fields-date-field/#post-1790390)
 * This is also a main issue for me as Chrome has a weird system for HTML5 date 
   field. A date picker or some sort of date formatting is an absolutely necessary
   feature.

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