Block for date facet

[YourMark]

Is your enhancement related to a problem? Please describe.

First off, thanks for this plugin and all your work on it. It really helps bringing ES to WordPress in a great manner.

Currently we have a setup where we use a custom search page in WordPress which uses Angular to get results from Elastic.

We are in the process of rebuilding this page using the ElasticPress widget blocks. For most part we have succeeded in the rebuild by using the taxonomy blocks.

However, one thing that we miss is the option to add a block can filter on post dates.

In our current situation there is an option to select one or more years the post must be from. For an example see below.

If this issue can be solved by the meta range facet, I might need some help 😉 I am not sure why, but available meta keys are not showing up in the dropdown (it stays grayed out).

Designs

This is an example of how it currently looks on our side, our custom solution that leans on Angular and which we are trying to reproduce with widget blocks.

Another idea or example could be a range slider with a minimum and maximum or 2 date pickers.

Describe alternatives you've considered

I have at this moment not experimented or considered any alternatives.

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[felipeelia]

@YourMark This is a feature that more people are asking for, so I've opened #3634 outlining the solution we'll aim to implement on ElasticPress 5.0. In the meantime, you can implement a new custom widget that simply applies those changes in the WP_Query directly. That would filter the results for you.