# BUGS in Elements CMS Build 1.5.5

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**Category:** Elements CMS\
**Created:** [November 29, 2025, 12:09pm UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bugs-in-elements-cms-build-1-5-5/52855 "2025-11-29T12:09:47Z")\
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**Post date:** [November 30, 2025, 11:10am UTC](https://forums.realmacsoftware.com/t/bugs-in-elements-cms-build-1-5-5/52855/5 "2025-11-30T11:10:24Z")

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> [@MichaelDroste](#):
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> Question 🙋‍♂️ for you… how do you use related items?

To be honest, I’m not fully sure yet how to use the related items in the most meaningful way — at least not as long as I can’t get them to work reliably. ^^

I’m probably not using them the way @ben originally intended.

Especially the **“author”** field: I’m using it differently than it was designed. Because let’s be honest — as long as there’s no external online access and most projects only have _one_ author anyway, the author field isn’t really needed in its classic sense.

Since the current Elements CMS setup allows filtering by **tags** , but not by **categories** , I simply repurposed the _author_ field and turned it into my own category system. 😉

For your example, this would mean you could have “authors” like **Rock & Pop** , **Classic Music** , **Jazz** , etc.

This gives me additional and more flexible filtering options — even though the possibilities with **related items** are currently still quite limited.

Personally, I prefer using **Collection Items** , because the built-in filtering options give you much more control over what gets displayed.

Maybe the **related items** feature will be expanded in the future and allow filtering by categories as well.

Let’s wait and see … but first I need to fix my own related-items problem — which works randomly at best, and currently mostly _doesn’t_ work.

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