Title: shortcode – display post by name
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# shortcode – display post by name

 *  Resolved [dangle2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dangle2k/)
 * (@dangle2k)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-display-post-by-name/)
 * I’d like to create a page of featured posts not based by category or tags but
   by the posts name. I assume that using a shortcode would be the best way for 
   someone to easily display a few featured posts, kind of like so:
 * [featuredpost post=”my favorite post title”]
    [featuredpost post=”my second favorite
   post title”]
 * I’ve looked around for something to use and all I can find are shortcodes for
   listing posts by category or tags or something similar. I’ve tried to modify 
   a list post by category shortcode by basically changing “category_name” to “post_name”
   like the example below:
 *     ```
       function post_listing_shortcode($atts) {
           extract(shortcode_atts(array(
               'post' => '',
               'include_date' => '',
           ), $atts));
   
           $args = array(
               'post_name' => $post,
           );
   
           $return = '';
           $listing = new WP_Query($args);
           if ($listing->have_posts()):
               $return .= '<ul>';
   
               while ($listing->have_posts()): $listing->the_post(); global $post;
                   $return .= '<li><a href="'.get_permalink().'">'.get_the_title().'</a>';
                   if ($include_date) $return .= ' ('.get_the_date('n/j/Y').')';
                   $return .= '</li>';
               endwhile;
   
               $return .= '</ul>';
           endif; wp_reset_query();
   
           if (!empty($return)) return $return;
       }
       add_shortcode('listing', 'post_listing_shortcode');
       ```
   
 * obviously that doesn’t work. Can someone please give me some help on accomplishing
   this? Ultimately I’d like to have the desired posts listed with the post title,
   author, excerpt and category along with the post thumbnail, but first things 
   first. If I can just get some help getting a shortcode that displays a post by
   the posts name that would be a great start.
 * Or would there be a better way than using a shortcode?
 * Thank you.

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 *  [MichaelH](https://wordpress.org/support/users/michaelh/)
 * (@michaelh)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-display-post-by-name/#post-2167277)
 * According to [http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Post_.26_Page_Parameters](http://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Post_.26_Page_Parameters)
   how about using the post slug with this change:
 *     ```
       $args = array(
               'name' => $post,
           );
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [dangle2k](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dangle2k/)
 * (@dangle2k)
 * [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-display-post-by-name/#post-2167467)
 * Yup, that did the trick! Just ‘name’ not ‘post_name’.
 * Thank you very much for your help!

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 * [post-name](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/post-name/)
 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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 * Last activity: [14 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/shortcode-display-post-by-name/#post-2167467)
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