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Answer has already been given, but I'd like to extend it a bit to include CSS (Wordpress doesn't provide stylesheets for jQuery UI), to help anyone passing trying to use this kind of scripts.

Basically (and very simply), you need to have at least these three lines of code:

    wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-datepicker');
    wp_register_style('jquery-ui', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8/themes/base/jquery-ui.css');
    wp_enqueue_style('jquery-ui');

Explanation line by line:

1. Load jQuery UI Datepicker (library already registered by Wordpress, nothing else is necessary)
2. Register Stylesheet with handle jquery-ui (I used the one hosted by Google, you can use whichever you prefer)
3. Effectively include stylesheet into the ones loaded by Wordpress in this page

And now your Datepickers will all be nice and colourful! :)

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This is not what the OP was asking for, but it's somewhat related to the question: if you don't want to bother adding the Datepicker, you could try the HTML5 date input type, letting the browser create a very nice (and default) datepicker:

<input type="date" name="the_date" />

Yes, nothing else is needed (and it works in the back-end of Wordpress, too: https://jsfiddle.net/2jxdvea0/

More info on MDN: https://developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/Web/HTML/Element/input/date

Note As @mark pointed out, the input does not work for Firefox (as well as for other browsers). This is noted in the MDN page, but of course it should be mentioned here as well. There are, of course, workarounds to this problem, but it would be beyond the sake of this question to write about them.

Update 03-11-2017 As of @kosso's comment, Firefox support for this is coming in version 57

Add the following line of code to enqueue the jquery ui datepicker library from your plugin:

wp_enqueue_script('jquery-ui-datepicker');

You can download the stylesheet file from the jquery ui library site and include it in your plugin. You would then enqueue the CSS file like the following:

wp_enqueue_style('jquery-ui-css', 'http://www.example.com/your-plugin-path/css/jquery-ui.css');

Alternatively, You can include the jquery ui CSS from Google (you don’t need to ship the CSS files with your plugin if you go via this route):

wp_enqueue_style('jquery-ui-css', 'http://ajax.googleapis.com/ajax/libs/jqueryui/1.8.2/themes/smoothness/jquery-ui.css');

Add the following JQuery code to your javascript file so it attaches the datepicker to any fields with a class of “custom_date”:

<script type="text/javascript">
jQuery(document).ready(function($) {
$('.custom_date').datepicker({
dateFormat : 'yy-mm-dd'
});
});
</script>

Now, you can simply add class “custom_date” to the date fields in the HTML code and it will show a date picker calender when a user clicks on that field.

<input type="text" class="custom_date" name="start_date" value=""/>

If you are using Suhosin with Hardened PHP, you might be hitting a maximum variables limit that it imposes. In your php.ini, you can just add

[suhosin]
suhosin.request.max_vars = 1000
suhosin.post.max_vars = 1000

changing 1000 to whatever you want and restart your webserver.

I ran into this on the Drupal Permissions page when there were a lot of modules installed with a large number of roles, which resulted in a ton of checkboxes. It would only save a certain number of them before anything after would just get ignored.

It sounds like this is probably not your problem, but since it's fairly likely that someone in the future may stumble upon this when searching for something related I'll go ahead and throw this in since it took me ages to figure out when I was stumped.

I solved my $_POST max inputs -problem by adding the following to php.ini:

max_input_vars = 5000
suhosin.request.max_vars = 5000
suhosin.post.max_vars = 5000

Note the suhosin.request.max_vars also.

I solved this problem. Open the PHP.INI configuration file and add these lines

[suhosin]

suhosin.post.max_vars = 20000

suhosin.request.max_vars = 20000

I suspect the problem is with the amount of data coming with your POST request. There is no setting which limits the number of $_POST vars that can be set. However there is a memory limit for POST data which is 8MB by default.

In your php.ini file try modifying the value of post_max_size and set it to a higher value. Don't forget to restart apache after the change is made.