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Advanced Custom Fields - Relationship
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I'm working on moving an existing site over to Elementor that makes decent use of relationship fields. I know that Elementor doesn't natively support this type, but I'm trying to find a way to display a basic text list of linked pages in the relationship field, bonus points if it can also have a link to the page. No gallery of posts or anything.
So far, the only pre-made solution I've found that I think would work is Dynamic.ooo, but I'd rather not stick my client with a $100+/yr. bill for plugins since they're already on Elementor Pro. Any ideas or suggestions? Am I going to be stuck developing my own custom plugin to solve this?
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How comfortable with coding are you? This can be accomplished by creating a shortcode (how we usually do it), or a PHP function that uses query ID if you're using a loop.
Yeah that’s the solution I ended up going with after writing this but at this point I’m just wondering if anyone has a better solution because I won’t be the one maintaining this site after the redesign and I don’t wanna stick someone on potentially having to fix that 😂
Unfortunately not anything we've found yet! The Elementor + ACF compatibility is behind/lacking in certain areas, and it's been that way for a while unfortunately.
But hey! Job security? ;)
You could use the posts widget with the free plugin dynamic post queries, and use it to target the custom fields you want to display.
Please, some more info. I have a similar question as the OP but find no plugin "dynamic post queries"
Advanced Post Queries, my bad had the wrong name.
I'm a bit confused about what you're asking, sorry. Elementor supports dynamic fields and Wordpress supports adding fields to posts, its a setting you turn.
If you're asking about what dynamic field plugins work best with Elementor I use Pods, they're free. Others will likely suggest, Crocoblock at $88/year for a single site. I am planning to try this plugin for the next client that needs custom fields so I can learn and see if I like it.
And then there's the ACF, and then lastly, the crazy expensive Dynamic.ooo that I checked out once and laughed.
Crocoblock is good and has use cases for us (mostly real estate so far).
We love working with Unlimited Elements which is a little cheaper than Croco and also offers some great dynamic functionality, along with the ability to create your own widgets using Twig.
Chatgpt can write you PHP functions and shortcode generation code if you're familiar with PHP it can save you more time than any plugin, or else JetEngine is as powerful if not more than Dynamicoo and has a free tier.