[mdcrovitz]

That was it — problem solved by changing the date format to “yy-mm-dd” from “yyyy-mm-dd”. Using the 2-character “yy” descriptor to obtain a 4-digit century value was the trick.

I use the following filter which is now working perfectly.

add_filter( ‘user_meta_field_config’, ‘user_meta_field_config_function’, 10, 3 );
function user_meta_field_config_function( $field, $fieldID, $formName )
{
// Check for date fiels
switch ($fieldID)
{
case 13:
// DOB — Assume someone between 16-100 years old
// allow selection of year field
// NOTE: To get 4-digit century, use “yy.” Using “yyyy” produces erroneous results
$field[‘field_options’] = array( “yearRange”=>”-100:-16″, “changeYear”=>true,”dateFormat”=>”yy-mm-dd” );
break;
case 14:
// Membersip date – Assume nothing older than 1972
// allow selection of year field
// NOTE: To get 4-digit century, use “yy.” Using “yyyy” produces erroneous results
$field[‘field_options’] = array( “yearRange”=>”1972:c”, “changeYear”=>true,”dateFormat”=>”yy-mm-dd” );
break;

}

return $field;
}

PACC, thanks so much.

[mdcrovitz]

I found the problem. It was a conflict with the WP Plugin Maintenance by Muneeb. Deactivating this plugin restored all my expand/collapse buttons, including the buttons on the E-mail Notification page.

Note, the expand/collapse buttons provided by the native WP Admin (such as what you see on the Dashboard) were not affected at all, they continued to show even when the User-Meta expand/collapse buttons failed to show. This is because the two system use different code to implement this feature. Only User-Meta is impacted by the Maintenance plug-in.

This problem now resolved.

[mdcrovitz]

I have another problem with the date picker. If you do exercise the great patience to go back multiple sets of decades to get to the proper year, then the final date installed in the field ends up with duplicate year values:

12/19/19501950

This is is now a bug and should get fixed.

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