[wp-testers] is_page('Education & Outreach')

[John Blackbourn]

On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 8:12 AM, John Blackbourn
<johnbillion+wp at gmail.com> wrote:
> On Wed, May 12, 2010 at 2:45 AM, Danny G Smith <dgs at riskiii.com> wrote:
>> It appears that is_page is not sanitizing the input text, at least that is my guess, when I use 'Education & Outreach' which it the page title, it does not work, but if I use the page number 25 it does.
>
> is_page() only accepts a page ID or an array of page IDs to check. It
> would probably be useful if it did accept page names (or more
> specifically, page paths).
>
> I usually stick a wrapper function in my theme's functions.php file:
>
> function is_page_by_name( $name ) {
>    $page = get_page_by_path( $name );
>    if ( $page )
>        return is_page( $page->ID );
>    return false;
> }
>
> John
>

You need to use the page slug when calling that function by the way,
eg in your case is_page_by_path( 'education-outreach') .