How to Apply jQuery UI Datepicker in WordPress?

Today, We want to share with you wordpress datepicker.In this post we will show you wp datepicker contact form 7, hear for Use WordPress default jQuery UI “datepicker” in your theme we will give you demo and example for implement.In this post, we will learn about jquery datepicker with an example.

Use jquery datepicker in wordpress

First write following simple wordpress source code in template file. These source code will include js as well as datepicker class in the template.

wp_enqueue_script('jquery');
wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-core');
wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-datepicker');
wp_enqueue_style('jquery-ui-css', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css');

Write following php source code in functions.php for date field. Or you can also write this source code in template file.

<?php function display_and_set_custom_date_picker(){ ?>
<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function(){
    jQuery('#birth_date').datepicker({
        dateFormat: 'dd-mm-yy'
    });
});
</script>
<?php
} 
// close display_and_set_custom_date_picker() here


//add an action to call display_and_set_custom_date_picker function
add_action('wp_footer','display_and_set_custom_date_picker',10);

and last step to Add Id “birth_date” to input HTML field like below.

 <input id="birth_date" name="birth_date" />

I hope you get an idea about wp custom field-date picker.
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