In a user form, the birthday field is slow to fill out after selecting a date. The delay makes the process cumbersome.
Solution:
The delay is due to Toolset using jQuery UI for the date fields' graphical user interface (GUI). Unfortunately, this is inherent to the library, and there is no direct solution within Toolset. To improve efficiency, consider hiring a developer to create a custom Date GUI using custom code.
The customer wanted to customize the login form to replace the email and username fields with only the email field and apply custom styling. They were following Toolset documentation but encountered limitations with the Toolset plugin.
Solution:
We explained that Toolset only allows pulling the default WordPress login form, which can be customized using CSS but does not support creating a fully custom login form. To customize the labels and structure, the customer would need to implement custom code. We provided links to WordPress documentation on how to customize the login form using native WordPress functions.
The customer created a Custom Post Type (CPT) with a date field and wanted to allow users to filter posts by month and/or year using a select list. The Toolset view filters did not support filtering by only month or year because the date field is queried as a timestamp.
Solution:
We explained that it’s not possible to filter by month or year directly using Toolset’s default date field filters. As a workaround, we suggested creating separate custom fields for the month and year, which could then be used in the filter. We provided a code example using the save_post hook to automatically populate these custom fields based on the selected date whenever a post is created or edited:
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function auto_generate_month_year_from_date_field($post_id) {
// Check if it's the correct post type
if (get_post_type($post_id) == 'YOUR_POST_TYPE') {
// Retrieve the date field
$date_field = get_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-YOUR-CUSTOM-DATE-FIELD-SLUG', true);
if (!empty($date_field)) {
// Convert the timestamp to a DateTime object
$date_obj = DateTime::createFromFormat('U', $date_field);
// Check if date creation was successful
if ($date_obj) {
// Extract the year and month
$year = date_format($date_obj, "Y");
$month = date_format($date_obj, "m");
// Update the custom fields with year and month
update_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-YEAR-FIELD-SLUG', $year);
update_post_meta($post_id, 'wpcf-MONTH-FIELD-SLUG', $month);
}
}
}
}
add_action('save_post', 'auto_generate_month_year_from_date_field', 101);
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Problem:
The customer wanted to display only posts with a custom image field in her view. However, when attempting to add a filter for this custom image field, it was not listed, nor were any other custom image fields.
Solution:
After further investigation, it was confirmed that the custom image fields not appearing in the filter section is expected behavior. We suggested using a wpv-conditional shortcode to test if the image exists as a workaround and provided a link to additional code that could help. Rita decided to rework the website to make images a required element when creating profiles.
