Title: Date without picker
Last modified: July 19, 2017

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# Date without picker

 *  Resolved [facemail4me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/facemail4me/)
 * (@facemail4me)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-without-picker/)
 * Hi,
    i am useing the free version. And it work fine. Thank you for coding. But
   now i want to add the bithday field at the register form. But it opens the picker
   and it needs a long time to add the date. Is it possible to create a normale 
   Date field where the user can type it by own at the free version?
 * Greeting Elias

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 *  Plugin Support [Ultimate Member Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemembersupport/)
 * (@ultimatemembersupport)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-without-picker/#post-9339941)
 * Hi [@facemail4me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/facemail4me/),
 * I’m afraid we use only date picker dialog for dates, alternatively, you can use
   text box or number fields.
 * Regards.
 *  Thread Starter [facemail4me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/facemail4me/)
 * (@facemail4me)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-without-picker/#post-9340021)
 * hi okay,
 * i used now a text field with a costum validation
    If someone wants the code: 
   add_action(‘um_submit_form_errors_hook_’,’um_custom_validate_date’, 999, 1); 
   function um_custom_validate_date( $args ) { global $ultimatemember; $d = DateTime::
   createFromFormat(‘d.m.Y’, $args[‘Fieldname’]); if ( $d === false) { $ultimatemember-
   > form -> add_error(‘Fieldname’,’erorrmessage’); } }
    -  This reply was modified 8 years, 10 months ago by [facemail4me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/facemail4me/).
 *  Plugin Support [Ultimate Member Support](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ultimatemembersupport/)
 * (@ultimatemembersupport)
 * [8 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/date-without-picker/#post-9346742)
 * Hi [@facemail4me](https://wordpress.org/support/users/facemail4me/),
 * Thanks for letting us know.
    I’m glad that you’ve found the solution.
 * Regards.

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