Reply To: Default value for datepicker

• John Huebner

• March 13, 2021 at 4:39 am

If you want to set the default value of a date field when loading a field it must be in the same format that ACF stores in the DB

add_filter('acf/load_field/name=date_of_birth', function ($field) {
    $field['default_value'] = date('Ymd');
    return $field;
});