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Dynamic Date

Dynamic Date is a form tag added by Contact Form 7 – Dynamic Text Extension (DTX) that creates <input type="date"> form fields for forms created with Contact Form 7. It expands upon Contact Form 7’s Date Field form tag, accepting all of the options it does, along with these additional options introduced by DTX:

OptionDescriptionExample
Dynamic valueSet a dynamic default value. It can be static text or a shortcode. The value is shown in the form tag between quotes.[dynamic_date inputname "custom_shortcode"]
Cache CompatibleEnable cache compatibility mode for this field[dynamic_date inputname dtx_pageload]
Options for the Dynamic Date form tag for Contact Form 7 provided by DTX.

These settings are easily configurable using the form-tag generator.

The form tag generator screen for the dynamic date form tag

The dynamic_date form tag was introduced in version 4.0.0 of theย Contact Form 7 โ€“ Dynamic Text Extensionย WordPress plugin.

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1 thought on “Dynamic Date”

  1. BUG Report:
    I coded [dynamic_date* date-of-talk min:2024-01-30 max:2026-04-29 step:7 “CF7_GET Key=’DoT'”] but the min/max and step do not restrict manually input values
    inspecting the code shows that the options are missing (see inspect of regular [date] field below

    [date* date-of-talk min:2024-02-27 max:2025-12-31 step:7 “2024”]