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I have a arbitrary string and want to check if a post with that slug string exists in the site. I tried to find a way to list all slugs, but can't find such a thing. Thanks

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    The question is protected, so i can't reply. You can use if(is_page('slug-here')) { echo 'exists'; }.
    – Iago
    Jul 5, 2015 at 12:43

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This is what you're looking for, tested and I use it on my own sites:

function the_slug_exists($post_name) {
    global $wpdb;
    if($wpdb->get_row("SELECT post_name FROM wp_posts WHERE post_name = '" . $post_name . "'", 'ARRAY_A')) {
        return true;
    } else {
        return false;
    }
}

You can then use it like this:

if (the_slug_exists('contact')) {
    // do something
}

Replace contact with whatever slug you want to test for.

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    should we use $wpdb_prepare to prepare escape the SQL statement?
    – insidepower
    Mar 14, 2015 at 7:09
  • Any chance to modify the code to only target a specific custom post type?
    – Bruno Monteiro
    Mar 29, 2016 at 12:58
  • Maybe if(the_slug_exists('contact') && post_type_exists('contact')) but then why not only use if(post_type_exists('contact')) ...
    – Jonas Lundman
    Oct 7, 2017 at 15:45
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    Using WP_Query() is a more maintainable solution than a direct DB query. For example, $query = new WP_Query(array('name' => 'my-new-slug')); if ($query->post_count == 0) {// I am unique!}
    – Alex Steinberg
    Jun 24, 2018 at 15:30
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    It can be written like this to use the correct prefix:("SELECT post_name FROM {$wpdb->prefix}posts WHERE post_name = '$post_name'", 'ARRAY_A'))
    – brasofilo
    Nov 10, 2020 at 21:46
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Do you mean post slug? You can try to make use of wp_unique_post_slug() that WP uses to generate those. If I remember right if slug you are trying to use is not unique it will be returned with numerical index appended.

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    sorry to reply so late. Yes post slug is the slug I want. Unfortunately I don't have the post_id which is required to use wp_unique_post_slug()
    – lulalala
    Aug 22, 2011 at 1:43
  • I couldn't figure out how to use wp_unique_post_slug to do this anyway. It does really check to see if a slug exists, as much as create one. I could be wrong or misinterpreting something but in my testing it would not check if something already existed.
    – Nathan
    May 14, 2014 at 23:20
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$args = array('name' => $slugName, 'post_type' => $postType); 

$slug_query = new WP_Query($args);
echo "<pre>";
var_dump($slug_query);
exit;

You then have more than enough information to test if a post was returned or not, hope this helps.

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    How this will extract slug uniqueness?
    – Rahil Wazir
    Feb 12, 2014 at 21:09
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How about this simpler approach?

$post_exists = get_page_by_path( $slug, OBJECT, $post_type );
if ( ! $post_exists )
    echo 'No post exists with this slug.';

If a post doesn't exist for the given slug and post type provided then get_page_by_path() returns null.

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  • Note that path is not quite the same thing as a slug (or post_name to use the name of the database column). If a post has a parent post, then its path will be parent_slug/slug
    – Flimm
    Sep 2, 2020 at 15:35
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$your_slug = 'my-pageeeeeee';
$wpdb = $GLOBALS['wpdb'];



//==================FIRST method======================
    $id = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT ID FROM " . $wpdb->posts . " WHERE post_name = '%s' AND ( post_type = 'page' OR post_type = 'post') ", $slug) );
    if (!empty($id)) {
        //............
    }





//====================SECOND method======================
    $counts = $wpdb->get_var($wpdb->prepare("SELECT count(post_name) FROM ".$wpdb->posts ." WHERE post_name like '%s'", $slug) );
    if ($counts >=1 ) {
        //.............
    }
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    Please add proper explanation to your answers like what the code does and how it should be used
    – Pieter Goosen
    Nov 9, 2015 at 4:24

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