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1. funkboybilly
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I'm using the $pagename variable in a query_posts string to pull subpages of defined page:

   <?php
   $pagename = 'Products & Services';
   $subpage_query = new WP_Query();
   $subpage_query->query("pagename=$pagename");
   ?>

   I'm using this instead of wp_list_pages because I need to customise the output of the code. I've only included the query portion of the code for simplicity.

   The problem is that when a page name contains a symbol such as the example above using "&", the connection breaks. If I leave out the "&" symbol, all pages are listed, and if I type the name of a page that doesn't exist, no pages are listed.

   How do I get around this if a page title contains a symbol?

2. tugbucket
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   your actual page name is "products-services"

3. funkboybilly
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks, you're right. WordPress documentation says that "pagename" is the page's path, not it's title.

   Is there a way to query posts/pages using a page's title? Or is there a way to find a page's slug/ID based on it's title and then use that to query posts?

   *the result I'm looking for is to write the title of any page into a custom field. WordPress finds the page from the custom field page title, and then lists it's subpages.

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