[Resolved] How to create a View / Template to let visitors search by post ID

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[Alok Sharma]

Hello,

I am creating a sort of URL redirection site.

I want to create a View / Template to allow the visitors to search by post ID (numeric). If post ID is found, it will redirect the visitor to a URL stored in custom fields and if post ID is not found, then it will simply display a not found message.

I checked the tutorial over here https://toolset.com/documentation/user-guides/front-page-filters/#tutorial but couldn't get much out of it. Any help will be highly appreciated.

Thanks in advance,

Alok

[Caridad]

Dear Alok,

I dont think you can use frontend filters for this, because it works by filtering a set of results. You could put a form with an input somewhere (in a widget?) and add some code to functions.php in your theme to intercept it. I havent tried this, but if the input field is called 'uid', and the field is 'redirect-url', the code could be something like this:

add_filter('template_redirect', 'redirect_visitor');
function redirect_visitor() {
  if (!empty($_POST['uid'])) {
    $url = get_post_meta($_POST['uid'], 'wpcf-redirect-url', true);
    wp_redirect($url);
  }
}

Please let me know if there is anything else that I can assist you with.

Regards,
Caridad

[Alok Sharma]

Hi Caridad,

I really wish there was a provison in View to perform custom searches. But anyway, thanks a lot for the other peice of code.

Thanks,

Alok