Slug vs. ID

- Great, now that we have our blog list,…blog detail, and page views working,…we want to add a little bit of better URL structure.…So, instead of using the ID of the post,…we're going to use the slug,…just like Wordpress does by default.…You'll see here that it should be Awesome New Page,…but instead we get page dash 23, which, not as great.…First thing we're going to do is open up our IDE.…

We're going to go over to our page component,…and we'll see how this works.…First it grabs the ID from the URL,…then it runs our service getPage method…to grab the data from the page.…However, what if you don't have the page ID?…What if you have something else, like the slug?…This is how we're going to have to fix that.…We're going to go into our RestApiService,…and we're going to add one more method called getPostBySlug,…and we're going to pass in a post ID.…

We're going to copy our getPost, and paste it in.…But right here, where it says,…posts/, we're going to add one more change,…and we're going to do slug=, and instead of post ID,…