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Feature request for CustomPress – please add "Date" as type for custom fields

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I’ve just been testing a wide range of custom post type plugins, and yours is the closest to what I want… except that it doesn’t support a “date” custom field type like so many of the other ones do!

Many of the other plugins allow to indicate that a field is a “date” field – and often provide a nice JavaScript calendar that you can pop up to choose the date you want to set in the field. Some will also do date validation to ensure that a proper date has been entered.

If you had this capability, I could use CustomPress. Now I’m off to continue my hunt… :slight_frown:

Thu, 29 Dec 2011 20:08:46
  • bghouse
    • Flash Drive

    +1 – actually a + 100. I just realized I don’t have a date field, which is killing me creating my custom post type for events in my site. Need to add start and end date, which is not the published date.

    Anyone know what I need to do to hack around this?

  • danyork-isoc
    • WPMU DEV Initiate

    Bghouse – the only way I found to “hack around this” was to use a different plugin that supported date fields in custom post types. I have done that and now have new post types that include a date field.

    The problem I have with the other plugin is that it doesn’t have a way to *require* entry of certain fields, so I am leaving it to the person entering the new page to remember to fill in the fields. Since there are 3 of us doing all the entry into the site right at this moment, it’s not a huge deal, but I have found myself forgetting to enter in the extra info.

    So I still haven’t found the ideal solution – but I do, at least, have date fields.

  • bghouse
    • Flash Drive

    Thanks danyork-isoc!

    I actually ended up having to remove CustomPress and do my post types by hand. Any ones created with CustomPress did not work with LoopBuddy and Headway. The ones I did my hand worked just fine – so I’m guessing there’s a small conflict from recent updates between the three. I’m sure the devs will get it all sorted soon.