Arts Repeater Tags for Elementor and ACF

Description

Elementor’s dynamic tags can’t reach inside an ACF repeater: sub-fields don’t show up in the tag picker at all. Getting “the second image of that repeater” into a section background usually ends in a PHP snippet, a shortcode, or a paid add-on.

This plugin adds a “Repeater Tags” group to the dynamic tag picker. Every tag works the same way: pick the repeater, pick the row (any index, or “Last row”), pick the sub-field. The value lands in whatever control you attached the tag to. No widgets to place, no templates to maintain.

Things people build with it:

• The first row’s headline in a heading widget
• The second image of a repeater as a section background
• A gallery sub-field feeding a gallery widget
• An offer card where the price counter, the accent color and the “sale ends” countdown all come from one row
• A product card whose colour variants come from a repeater nested inside the product’s row
• A “latest update” badge bound to the last row, which keeps showing the newest entry as editors add rows
• A site-wide announcement bar fed by a repeater on an ACF options page
• One “Product Details” template in Theme Builder where every product renders its own rows (Elementor Pro)
• A Loop Grid where each card is a repeater row — three rows, three cards (Elementor Pro)

The seven tags

Seven tags land in the picker, one per value shape:

• Repeater Row: Text — for text controls anywhere, from headings to the Video widget’s URL and the Google Maps address. Reads text, textarea, email, URL, number, range, date, time and color sub-fields as plain text; choice fields (select, checkbox, radio, button group) as their labels; WYSIWYG as rich text; Google Map as its address
• Repeater Row: Media — for image controls, including section backgrounds. Reads image and file sub-fields
• Repeater Row: URL — for link controls like buttons. Reads URL, Link, page link and file sub-fields — and post object, relationship, taxonomy and user sub-fields as the linked post, term or author URL
• Repeater Row: Gallery — for gallery controls. Reads gallery sub-fields
• Repeater Row: Number — for numeric controls like the Counter and Progress Bar. Reads number and range sub-fields
• Repeater Row: Color — for every color control in the Style tabs. Reads color picker sub-fields
• Repeater Row: Date — for date controls like the Countdown (Elementor Pro). Reads date-time picker sub-fields and outputs a machine-readable date

Each tag’s sub-field dropdown offers only fields it can actually render — no pick-it-and-nothing-happens dead ends. Values follow the return format configured in ACF, the Date tag’s machine format being the one deliberate exception.

Works with free Elementor

The plugin has no Elementor Pro dependency. Free Elementor ships no dynamic tags of its own, so on a free Elementor + ACF site these are the only dynamic tags in the picker. With Secure Custom Fields as the repeater provider, the entire stack is free.

Repeaters on options pages, terms and users

Repeaters attached to an ACF options page are available site-wide and marked “(Options)” in the picker. On taxonomy and author archive templates, tags read the repeater from the current term or user.

Extras with Elementor Pro

Pro isn’t required, but if it’s active:

• Tags resolve per post inside Theme Builder single templates and Loop items, so one template shows each post’s own rows
• “Repeat by ACF Repeater” on the Loop Grid and Loop Carousel renders one card per repeater row — design the card once, bind its tags to “Current loop row”, and three rows become three cards
• A “Repeater row count” display condition shows or hides a section depending on how many rows a repeater holds