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And bonus question - how do you make the taxonomies not show a "&" and just show "& - you can see what I mean in the video too!

(It won't let me distinguish between the two versions in this comment - one is & amp ; )

Yes, I was indeed referring to field posts as related post. And just to clarify I was talking about the custom field option "post" that allows you to select a related post. Sorry that my terminology was confusing!

So in summary - they save in different tables - but both form a relationship that can later be queried in the traditional 1:n way.

So my next question is: Do I even need to worry about saving a relationship between a user and a CPT (in addition to the field post) - or is there no point as they are already connected by the field post? What would you advise for this scenario? Thank you.

Hi Long - can't work out how to send screenshots in this chat, and so here is a loom: https://www.loom.com/share/ba1dd8f3f7f74c23ac377af4f201b9d7

The profile that is there is brand new, and so the box should be ticked:

Hi Long, thank you for your reply. It didn't work by making it html - but I got it working with:

add_shortcode( 'make_a_mailto_email_link', function() {
    $author_id = get_post_field( 'post_author', get_queried_object_id() );
    $user_email = rwmb_meta( 'user_email', ['object_type' => 'user'], $author_id );
    $output = $user_email;

    return $output;
} );

And adding "mailto:" in the advanced 'before' field in the dynamic options in elementor.

Thank you for your help though! Really happy this ones done!

Ok, I have been trying to work this out for a while. I don't understand how the short code API should be applied. And should the collected email custom field be an email format, or is it better if it is text?

  add_shortcode( 'make_a_mailto_email_link', function() {
        $author_id = get_post_field( 'post_author', get_queried_object_id() );

   $user_email = rwmb_meta( 'user_email', ['object_type' => 'user'], $author_id );
    if ( empty( $post_id ) ) {
        return '';
    }

    $output = ( 'mailto:'; $user_email );
    return $output;
} );

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Am I along the right tracks? And what do I need to do to make it work?

Hi Long,

Really after some advice - as you already helped me with a shortcode to display a related post, and would ideally keep it as is. But it was my understanding at the time that it would be possible to establish the relationship from their selection. Is there any way to just populate the relationship field depending on the related post they select?

I saw something about dynamic population. Could that be a solution for this case or would you advise otherwise?

University is a post. To clarify what I am trying to do: I would like the user to choose and be connected to a CPT (university). The post type university would then show the users connected to it. Eventually the university will be connected to another CPT called country. I would then like this 'country' to also be connected to the user. So that on another CPT where the user submits research, it will show their associated university and country. And clicking through to the country will show the universities of that country, then clicking through to each university, will show its associated academics. I have done nothing additional than create a relationship between user and university.

The thread you have linked me to has a lot of information, but I still don't understand. Where do I add the [mb_frontend_form id="{$relationship_id_AB}_relationships_from, {$relationship_id_BC}_relationships_to" post_fields="title,content" post_type="B"] shortcode into my form? I would like it to be in the same form as my other form questions - or is this not possible? If it is, how do I add a metabox post relationship field with select 2 selection?

Thank you

I think the is the request for 'full_url' --> is there something else I can use here?

Or do you have some alternative code? I found some a long time ago on the internet that worked perfectly without this error, but I mistakenly overwrote the code, and now can't find it again online