Check if post by title exists in WordPress?

You need to check if post (of any post type) with specific title exists.

You don’t use direct SQL inserts since this is not per WordPress codex.

$title = "Check if this title exists?";
$post = get_page_by_title( $title, 'OBJECT', 'post' );
if(NULL===$post){  // insert post
  $new_post = array (
  'post_title' => $title,
  'post_content' => $description,
  'post_type' => "post",
  'post_status' => "draft"
  );
  $id = wp_insert_post ( $new_post );
}else{ 
  //update post
  $id = $post->ID;
  $update_post = array (
  'ID' =>	$id,
  'post_title' => $title,
  'post_content' => $description,
  'post_type' => "post",
  'post_status' => "draft"
  );
   wp_update_post( $update_post );
}

Similar for any custom post type you can use

$post = get_page_by_title( $title, 'OBJECT', 'custom_post_type' );

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