Actual widget output
Cards, listings and post templates

Show the first ACF text field that is filled in, with the excerpt or title as a last resort.

Each example below is the actual published output of the ACF text fallback chain widget reading sample site data: Text and Textarea fields saved on the demo page itself, where the card headline is empty and the subtitle and summary are filled in.

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Sample site data. Default settings: the headline is empty, so the subtitle shows.