Check if post exists

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How can I check if post with name for example Weather exists? If not I want to create it.

function such_post_exists($title) {
global $wpdb;

$p_title = wp_unslash( sanitize_post_field( 'post_title', $title, 0, 'db' ) );

if ( !empty ( $title ) ) {
    return (int) $wpdb->query("SELECT FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE post_title = $p_title");
}

return 0;
}

2 Answers
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WordPress has a post_exists function that returns the post ID or 0 otherwise.
So you can do

if ( 0 === post_exists( $title ) ) {
    **YOUR_CODE_HERE**
}

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