Wordpress query for single post with slug

Jacob

I am aware with the WP_Query class to collect list of posts. But is it possible to run a query for single post with the post slug? I don't want to run loop for the single post that why I want an easy solution for it.

morgan

You case get single post with slug without using the loop. Let's use the get_posts() function.

$my_slug = 'my_slug';
$args = array(
  'name'        => $my_slug,
  'post_type'   => 'post',
  'post_status' => 'publish',
  'numberposts' => 1
);

$my_posts = get_posts($args);
$my_single_post = $my_posts ? $my_posts[0] : null;

morgan

Another solution that I find is by using the get_page_by_path() function.

$my_slug = 'my_slug';
$single_post = get_page_by_path( $my_slug, OBJECT, 'post' );

For more details, Take a look to the documentation https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_page_by_path/