ACF Relationship Tag

Relations Are Here.

An ACF Relation Field is a powerful tool. You can connect custom post types to user pages or category pages (archives) and you can also run relation between custom post types or even between a custom post type and itself. You can run multiple relations and create unique and tailored user-selectable (and searchable) custom fields, to enhance the UX of your WordPress site while making it much more relevant to your users.

Use Cases.

For example, say you want to print a simple UL list of related posts within a specific post. All you need to do is use a widget that can be either a title or pretty much any other widget you desire.

In our example we’re using a simple headline: we will change the HTML tag for H2 (default) to div to avoid any theme design and then we will select the ACF Relationship Dynamic Tag.
Once Selected – click on the title that now appears in the text input field on the Elementor sidebar. Another small window will show up, and there you can tweak the results output.

Return Options.

Since the ACF Fields returns an array of results you can output them by: UL list, OL list, Delimiter-based, Array Length (Amount of results) and you will be also able to specify a distinct Array Item.
You can also decide what data to return: Name, Slug, ID, Link, and Clickable title.

For users who use Listing Plugins like Jet Engine – This can be used to return values into listing grids and will allow you to use a very robust Relations Field and unique relations between data types. Immensely powerful indeed.

If you use dynamic visibility plugins for Elementor you may find the number of results useful for printing out different content according to the results. Try to avoid printing out arrays in UL where a single value is needed (if you can see what you change like when using it as a dynamic query in a listing grid then you can use a simple text widget, set it up to your needs and then use that setup).
Remember – with great power – comes great responsibility.