How can I get a post by title in WordPress?

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1. get_page_by_title($id, OBJECT, 'post');
   

   There ye go.

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2. <!--1.Get post ID by post title if you know the title or the title variable-->
   <?php
   $posttitle = 'post_title';
   $postid = $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_title = '" . $posttitle . "'" );
   echo $postid;
   ?>
   
   <!--2.use get_post($post_id) to get whatever you want to echo-->
   <?php
   $getpost= get_post($postid);
   $postcontent= $getpost->post_content;
   echo $postcontent;
   ?>
   

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3. No need to SQL query’s when you can use wordpress own functions for this.

   $page = get_page_by_title( 'Startsida' );
   $page_id = $page->ID;
   

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4. post_exists is a good function for that :

   https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/post_exists/

   <?php
   
   $post_id = post_exists('Your title');
   // return id or 0 if post doesn't exists.
   
   if($post_id>0)
       get_post($post_id);
   

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5. See my answer on a very similar question. Do not query the data base with an unescaped string.

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6. You can use this:

   1)

   global $wpdb;
   $your_title = "yourtitle";
   $id = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT ID FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_name = $your_title");
   echo $id;
   

   or 2)

       $slug_to_get = 'my_title_or_slug';
       // you can use custom post type too
       $posttypee='post';
   
       $args=array(
         'title' => $slug_to_get,
         'post_type' => $posttypee,
         'post_status' => 'publish'
         );
       $my_posts = get_posts($args);
       if( $my_posts ) {
       echo 'ID on the first post found '.$my_posts[0]->ID;
       }
   

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