Just wanna give you some short info about a new field type that soon will arrive in Simple Fields: The jQuery DatePicker field type. Or as I like to call it: “Datepicker 2”.

While Simple Fields already has a date field, it has some shortcomings. One big is the fact that it stores the selected date in the database as a string in the format “dd-mm-yyyy”, which makes it difficult to sort posts by this selected date.

To overcome this the new field will store the selected date – and possibly time in the future too – as a unix timestamp. This will make it very easy to sort posts by date.

It will also feature some other good things:

• An option to set default date (no date or current date)
• Optionally always show the date picker, so there is no need to click a text box or similar. Makes it a bit more user friendly at times
• The date format that is shown can be customized.
• And of course it will use Extended Return Values by default