Retrieves a page given its title.

Description

If more than one post uses the same title, the post with the smallest ID will be returned.
Be careful: in case of more than one post having the same title, it will check the oldest publication date, not the smallest ID.

Because this function uses the MySQL ‘=’ comparison, $page_title will usually be matched as case-insensitive with default collation.

Parameters

$page_titlestringrequired

Page title.

$outputstringoptional

The required return type. One of OBJECT, ARRAY_A, or ARRAY_N, which correspond to a WP_Post object, an associative array, or a numeric array, respectively.

Default:OBJECT

$post_typestring|arrayoptional

Post type or array of post types. Default 'page'.

Default:'page'

Return

Source

function get_page_by_title( $page_title, $output = OBJECT, $post_type = 'page' ) {
	_deprecated_function( __FUNCTION__, '6.2.0', 'WP_Query' );
	global $wpdb;

	if ( is_array( $post_type ) ) {
		$post_type           = esc_sql( $post_type );
		$post_type_in_string = "'" . implode( "','", $post_type ) . "'";
		$sql                 = $wpdb->prepare(
			"SELECT ID
			FROM $wpdb->posts
			WHERE post_title = %s
			AND post_type IN ($post_type_in_string)",
			$page_title
		);
	} else {
		$sql = $wpdb->prepare(
			"SELECT ID
			FROM $wpdb->posts
			WHERE post_title = %s
			AND post_type = %s",
			$page_title,
			$post_type
		);
	}

	$page = $wpdb->get_var( $sql );

	if ( $page ) {
		return get_post( $page, $output );
	}

	return null;
}

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