Group entries by month based on custom date picker field

Question

Would anyone know if it is possible to group a list of entries by month, but based on a custom date picker field? To display something like this:

October 2014 Title 1 Title 2 Title 3

November 2014 Title 4 Title 5

December 2014 Title 6

January 2015 Title 7 Title 8 etc etc.

It's for a list of holidays, that I need to display by date order in groups. So the entry_date isn't the actual date if the holiday, I've got a custom field as the holiday start date and another on as the holiday end date.

Answer 1

I think there are a couple ways to approach this. These links from a previous conversation may help:

Show all entries from a given custom date field

http://www.solspace.com/software/detail/date_field_filter/

Answer 2

I'm actually doing someting similar on a site right now to display a list of entries that have been released over the past several months. It groups by month and displays the corresponding entries underneath. Here is my base code:

{exp:channel:entries channel="" limit="20" month_limit="2" category_group="4|9|5|3"}
    {date_heading display="monthly"}
        <h4 class="whats-new-month">
            <a name="#{entry_date format="%F-%Y"}">{entry_date format="%F %Y"} Releases</a>
        </h4>
    {/date_heading}
    <div class="whats-new">
        <h6>{title}</h6>
        <ul class="whats-new">
            <li><b>Date Released</b>: {entry_date format="%F %j, %Y"}</li>
            {if cf_master_summary}
                <li><b>Summary</b>: {cf_master_summary}</li>
            {/if}
            <li><b>Where to find it</b>: <a href="">...</a></li>
        </ul>
    </div>
{/exp:channel:entries}

Hope that helps!