Exclude drafts from ACF Relationship field

To exclude draft posts from appearing in the ACF Relationship field, add this code to your functions.php file.

All you need to do is update “your_field_name”.

add_filter('acf/fields/relationship/query/name=your_field_name', 'relationship_options_filter', 10, 3);

function relationship_options_filter($options, $field, $the_post) {
  
  $options['post_status'] = array('publish');
  
  return $options;
}

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