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<\/a>One picker, not two<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
The biggest change is the one your guests will feel first. Instead of two disconnected calendars, there’s now a single range picker<\/strong>: tap your check-in date, and the valid check-out window lights up instantly \u2014 respecting availability, minimum and maximum stay length, and any booking rules you’ve set. Tap check-out, and you’re done. Two months show on desktop, one on mobile.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Crucially, the calendar is availability-aware<\/strong>: a guest can never select a range that spans a night you’re already booked or have blocked. Fewer dead-end bookings, fewer support emails.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The old picker pulled in jQuery, jQuery UI, a base theme, and 68 separate locale files<\/strong> \u2014 well over half a megabyte before a guest could pick a date. The new picker is a single zero-dependency library of around 15 KB gzipped<\/strong>. That’s a meaningful cut to what every visitor downloads, and one less legacy dependency to maintain.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The new calendar was built to today’s standards, not 2012’s:<\/p>\n\n\n\n We didn’t stop at the calendar. The sprawling room \/ adult \/ child drop-downs have been folded into a single guests & rooms popover<\/strong> with friendly plus\/minus steppers \u2014 one per room \u2014 summarised in plain language (“2 adults \u00b7 2 children \u00b7 1 room”). Paired with the slimmed date field, every search surface now reads as one cohesive [ Dates ] [ Guests & rooms ] [ Search ]<\/strong> bar \u2014 the pattern travellers recognise from every major booking site \u2014 that folds gracefully into a stacked card on narrow screens and in sidebars.<\/p>\n\n\n\n The modern picker is the default for every site<\/strong>, new and upgraded alike \u2014 there’s nothing to switch on. Your existing booking rules, availability logic, and submitted data are all untouched; this is a front-of-house upgrade, not a change to how bookings work.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Run a heavily customised template? A new \u201cDatepicker engine<\/strong>\u201d option in Solidres Configuration lets you flip back to the Legacy<\/strong> picker in a single click. We’re keeping that option around for several releases, so there’s a long, safe window to update any custom overrides at your own pace.<\/p>\n\n\n\n Modern by default, legacy on tap, and a booking experience that finally matches today’s leading travel sites \u2014 that’s the new Solidres date picker. Upgrade, and your guests get it automatically.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" We’ve replaced the ageing jQuery UI date picker with a fast, dependency-free, OTA-style range picker \u2014 the same single-tap check-in \u2192 check-out flow your guests already know from the major travel-booking sites. For years, every date field in Solidres \u2014 the booking funnel, the search modules, the admin reservation screens \u2014 was powered by the […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1247"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1249,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1247\/revisions\/1249"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1247"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1247"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.solidres.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1247"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}Lighter, faster, no jQuery<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Accessible and dark-mode ready<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
A search bar that finally feels like one<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
Nothing to configure \u2014 and a safety net if you need it<\/h4>\n\n\n\n