Our Contact Form 7 form displays today's date on form load with this code:
[date today-date "Today"]
This gives us Today's date of 04/16/2022.
We would like to format the date to display date by month name.
For instance, April 16, 2022
Any ideas if this is possible?
Short answer: no
Long answer: the format of the <input type="data" value="2022-04-16"/> field is set by the browser and not CF7, furthermore it cannot be custom formatted. There is a whole question/answers thread dedicated to this issue on stackoverflow.
The simplest way to solve this is to use a text input field instead and convert it to a date field using the the jQuery datapicker which has the advantage of being loaded from WP core.
<script>
$( function() {
$( "#datepicker" ).datepicker("option", "dateFormat", "d M yy" );
} );
</script>