by Fahad Mahmood 4.8 (37 reviews)

WP Datepicker

Name: WP Datepicker
Rating: 4.8 (37 reviews)
Author: Fahad Mahmood

A great plugin to implement custom styled jQuery UI datepicker site-wide.

WP Datepicker ranks #2,728 among WordPress.org plugins with 6,000+ active installations, is #75 of 1,883 in the Calendar & Events category, a 4.8/5 rating from 37 reviews, and was last updated Apr 15, 2025. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.8 (Current: 7.1)

v2.1.6 Current Version v2.1.6

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 15 Apr, 2025

Refreshed 6 hours ago Last Refreshed on

#75 of 1,883 in Calendar & Events Top 5% by installs Downloads -7.8% this week No update in over a year

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Rank

#2,728

-1 this week

Active Installs

6K+

-18.2%

KW Avg Position

5.3

1 worse

Downloads

263.9K

+11 today

Support Resolved

100%

— No change

Rating

96%

Review 4.8 out of 5

4.8 (37 reviews)

Next Milestone 7K

Total Progress 95.5%

6K+ 7K+

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Reviews & Ratings

4.8

37 reviews

Overall 96%

34 (92%)

2 (5%)

0 (0%)

1 (3%)

Support Threads Overview

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Total Threads

Resolved

Unresolved

100%

Resolution Rate

Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

4 known vulnerabilities on record · 3 in the last 24 months · checked 2 days ago

Dec 23, 2024

WP Datepicker [wp-datepicker] < 2.1.5

CVE-2024-12468 · Fixed in v2.1.5
Sep 25, 2024

WP Datepicker [wp-datepicker] < 2.1.2

CVE-2024-47321 · Fixed in v2.1.2
Sep 23, 2024

WP Datepicker [wp-datepicker] < 2.1.2

CVE-2024-44042 · Fixed in v2.1.2
Apr 23, 2024

WP Datepicker [wp-datepicker] < 2.1.1

CVE-2024-3895 · Fixed in v2.1.1

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.1.6
Last Updated: Apr 15, 2025
Requires WP: 3.0.1+
Tested Up To: 6.8
PHP Version: 7.0 or higher
Author: Fahad Mahmood

Support & Rating

Rating: ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.8
Reviews: 37
Support Threads: 1
Resolved: 100%

Keywords

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

WP Datepicker is for WordPress site owners who want to add a styled date picker field to posts, pages, contact, and event forms. It solves the need for a customizable jQuery UI datepicker without having to write jQuery scripts manually for each field.

Multiple CSS selectors as CSV
Enable datepicker in wp-admin
Editable or readonly date field
Enable/disable weekends
Full or short month format
Editable date format or default date
Autosaves changes
Extendable for advanced users

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about WP Datepicker

When a date is selected in the first box, the number of days in this box will be disabled (including selected day) form the selected date. For example, if 10th March is selected in first field and in the backend, you have added 3 days so, in the second field day 10, 11 & 12 will be disabled. It will happen same when you add Months or Years in the backend.

Yes, this plugin is using independent CSS and JavaScript files instead of inserting scripts in web page source-code.

All scripts are well managed in relevant files.

Yes, it will generate the required files whenever you will modify something on settings page and that version will keep serving your visitors everytime with zero delay.

Yes, in advanced version you can create multiple instaces so each field can have different settings.

Yes, it is compatible with all WordPress themes which are developed according to the WordPress theme development standards.

Every theme will have different global styles so a few stylesheet properties will be required to be added and/or modified.

Yes, a code snippet is available to disable specific days and dates under custom scripts section.

1) Go to plugin section (wp-admin) click on add new and then write wp datepicker in search bar 2) Click on install button wp datepicker and then click on activate respectively 3) Settings Menu > WP Datepicker > Settings Page Here we have a few options: a) First option is Configure WP Datepicker by Input field's Id b) Second option is Configure WP Datepicker by Input field's Class c) Third option is Configure WP Datepicker by Input field's attribute. e.g. name, type and HTML5 data

[youtube http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2afBhUPp4w] Go to Contact Menu (wp-admin) after installation of contactform7 plugin, click on Contact forms and here we have a contact form 1 by default, click on it. You will see something like this: Your Name (required) [text* your-name] Your Email (required) [email* your-email] Date 2 [date date-134 class:dp] Subject [text your-subject] Your Message [textarea your-message] [submit "Send"] Create a new field with an id "#Calendar" Like: Date [date date-726 id:calendar] Create second field with a class ".dp" Like: Date 2 [date date-134 class:dp] Create second field with a class ".dp" like: Date 3 [date date-499] having no id and class I) Now go to the options panel in the input field write id of the first input field with hash sight #calendar and click on save then refresh page, here first input field have a calendar and other two fields do not have this calendar. II) Now we configure with second option write second input field's class here with dot sign by separating with comma like #calendar, .bday then refresh your page and here the second field also has this calendar. III) Now configure with input field's name, write it by separating comma like #calendar, .bday, input [name="datepicker"] and refresh your page. Click on the third field to try, this field will also have this calendar option. Finally: The first "Date" field is configured with id, second "Date 2" with input field's class and third "Date 3" with input field's name.