Update Date Field with Today’s Date

This short CRED Code allows you to get the TODAY’s Date in seconds from Timestamp begin and update a Date Field (Types) with this value. Since Views can currently not handle post_date in Parametric Searches this can be useful to find posts by Publish Date (let’s say you updated the CF with TODAY date on post creation)

/** 
  *Update news post date to a CF since Views cant handle Post Date in param search
  */
        
    function update_post_date_save_data_action($post_id, $form_data){
            
        // Change your CRED Form "ID" accordingly below
        if ($form_data['id']==ID){
                
            // get current date, returns full Timestamp
            $post_date = date("U");
                
            //update the CF with current post date

            update_post_meta( $post_id, 'wpcf-date_field_slug', $post_date );       
        }
    }
add_action('cred_save_data', 'update_post_date_save_data_action',10,2);