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How to get page URL by title in wordpress? (get_page_by_title() function has been deprecated scince 6.2.0)

I use

get_page_by_title()

sometimes in my code, for example

get_page_by_title($article['title'], OBJECT, 'post');

but now documentation says i cant use it anymore. It was pretty convenient for the purpose of testing some features where I can’t use ids because of creating content on different databeses for testing purposes.
Is there any way except using WP_Query class because its look like a pain to use it just for getting link by the title of the post

I am looking for something like

get_url_by_title('title', 'post')

Any thoughts?

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    As mentioned @CBroe in comments, the best substitution for deprecated get_page_by_title() is get_posts() documentation. Ok, I know that documentation says: "Use WP_Query instead.", but it looks like pain.

    So back to solution. To get a single page or post by title, use

    $array_of_objects = get_posts([
    'title' => 'Post or page title',
    'post_type' => 'any',
]);
$id = $array_of_objects[0];//Be sure you have an array with single post or page 
$id = $id->ID;
$link = get_permalink($id);

    There are some moments. 'post_type' => 'any' works better than particular post type. Do not forget that get_posts() returns an array of objects, so you need to refer to an array and then to object.

    But if you need to get a link for a single category, you can use

    $id = get_cat_ID($title);
$link = get_category_link($id);

  2. 0

    You can try this:

    get_permalink( get_page_by_title('Monthly Events');

    For more detail please visit the reference.

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  3. 0

    Well, since the reason to deprecate this function is stupid [corporate non-sense ala Automattic https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/57041 ]

    You can just un-deprecate it! Use this function instead:

    function getPageByTitle( $page_title, $output = OBJECT, $post_type = 'page' ){

    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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