Add slider by title

HI, I’ve been working on a wordpress theme, and I’m in a situation where I need to add a slider by name, rather than by id.

so, putting my very basic PHP skills into the mix, I came up with this, and so far, it seems to work.

// EXTRACT SHORTCODE ATTRIBUTES
//extract(shortcode_atts(array(
// ‘id’ => 0,
//), $atts));

extract(shortcode_atts(array(
‘id’ => 0,
‘title’ => ”,
), $atts));

if($title !== ”){
global $wpdb;
$myposts = $wpdb->get_results( $wpdb->prepare(“SELECT * FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_title LIKE ‘%s'”, $wpdb->esc_like( $title ) ) );
if(count($myposts) == 1){
$post = get_post( $myposts[0] );
$id = $post->ID;
}
}

to use it, you can put in the shortcode
[slide-anything title=”slider-title”]

I’m sure that someone with better PHP skills than mine ( I’m only 3 weeks in ), can turn this into something more correct, solid and useful.

If it’s useful enough, maybe it could make it into the next release of the code?