How to add a dropdown of custom field dates months

By default it is not supported by this plugin. Date field is complicated. It’s many limitation. If you want have a date field for filter, your date field must store as YYYY-MM-DD format.

If the format is correct, then in processing the query, you will have to insert correct meta field in meta query by this uwpqsf_get_cmf filter.

Hi the custom fields is YYYYMMDD and I convert it – this is my query:

$today = date('Ymd');
$args = array(
'post_type' => 'events',
'post_status' => 'publish',
'posts_per_page' => '-1',
'meta_query' => array(
        array(
            'key' => 'dates',
            'compare' => '>=', // Upcoming Events - Greater than or equal to today
            'value' => $today,
        )
    ),
    'meta_key' => 'dates',
    'orderby' => 'meta_value_num',
    'order' => 'ASC',
    );

With the filter you gave me how do I use it and do I use all of it or just part of it?

You can try this:

add_filter('uwpqsf_get_cmf', 'add_customdate_get','',3);
function add_customdate_get( $cmf,$id, $getcmf ){
       $i = 0;
	foreach($getcmf as  $v){
		if(!empty($v['value'])){
			if($v['compare'] == '>='){
                               //if you want to applied to specific meta field only
                               if($v['metakey'] == 'your_desired_metafield'){
                                $cmf[$i] = array();//just to make sure no duplicate meta field in the query.
				
				$cmf[] = array(
					'key' => strip_tags( stripslashes($v['metakey'])),
					'value' => $v['value'],
					'type' => 'DATE',
					'compare' => '>='
					);
			          }
			}
		 }
         $i++;
       }
	  return $cmf;
 }	

Note, the codes is not tested. It may not works, it’s just shows you the idea

Hi thanks how will that work with the datepicker field?
Is there any way to get an options like you had in https://s.w.org/plugins/ajax-wp-query-search-filter/screenshot-3.png?r=1513692

where you can use the date field and add the month name and year name as a drop down.

Hi I am back again to try again, I came across this link and not sure if it would work to get a drop down of the date field dates into months:https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/113419/custom-filtering-on-month-value-only-of-an-entire-date-field

this is what they used: -01-::Jan|-02::Feb|-03-::Mar|-04-::Apr|-05-::May|-06-::Jun|-07-::Jul|-08-::Aug|-09-::Sep|-10-::Oct|-11-::Nov|-12-::Dec

I still can’t see how that will filter, but is this on the right track?
Thanks