Hey John, sure I would be able to help. I know a really good amount about Elementor, but i am just getting into ACF and still learning. I know a small amount of PHP, i am extremely knowledgable in CSS, HTML and JS. Still learning PHP but i can do more small scale stuff. I have been designing sites and coding since 1999 and i also am a graphic designer and video editor, ive been doing graphics in Adobe since 1999 and just last year i started to learn Final Cut Pro X.
Anyways, i am always down to help if i know how to fix the persons issue. Ill stick around and check on new posts every once and awhile.
I was able to figure it out with Elementor, and changing some settings in the Custom Field. My problem was i was using Elementor > Text Area Widget > Dynamic Tags > ACF Field > (select my field from dropdown).
What i needed to do, to pull the data from the users profile, was this: Elementor > Text Area Widget > Dynamic Tags > Site – User Info > Field: (dropdown) User Meta > Meta Key (type field name into this box)
This successfully pulls the data from the user profile that the custom fields are for. I was not aware of this, and to be honest, this is not mentioned anywhere in the ACF or Elementor Pro documentation, i had to figure this out on my own and i know for a fact there are TONS of other ACF/Elementor users who are trying to pull data from the custom user fields and display it on the front end of their site.
But my “issue” is now solved.
This code did not work. I think i am not setting up the custom field properly. What settings should be set, to what, for the above code to work? I have it set to “Text” for the type and conditions to all users but it wont work. I even have Elementor Pro installed, and when i put a text area into a page, and then use the Dynamic feature for the text, i select ACF Custom Field as the dynamic content, and then the fields show up there and any of them that i select, none of them show on the front end or in the elementor editor. So im beginning to think that my custom field is not set up properly.
