How do you query by category by name with apostrophe?

I created a basic shortcode. It takes attributes like count, offset, and category. It outputs a list of posts based on that info.

The issue is that it doesn’t work if there is an apostrophe in the category name. How do I make this work? I don’t even know what I’m looking for.

Example shortcode
[articles cat="Doesn't work"]

Function:
***
Note 1: I’m not showing the functions that set the other variables.
Note 2: This works for other categories – single or common separated.
***

function output($atts) {
    $queryTerms = [];
    $queryCats = explode(",",$atts['cats']);
    foreach ($queryCats as $queryCat) {
        $queryTerms[] = $queryCat;
    }
   
    $taxQuery = array (
        'relation' => 'OR',
	    array (				
		'taxonomy' => 'article_category',
		'field' => 'name',
		'terms' => $queryTerms,
		'operator' => 'IN',
					
	));
    $query = new WP_Query( array(
	'post_type'	=> $postQuery,
        'posts_per_page' => $postCount,
        'order' => 'DESC',
        'orderby' => 'date',
	'offset' => $offset,
	'tax_query' => $taxQuery,
    ));

    if ( $query->have_posts()) :
        while ( $query->have_posts() ) : $query->the_post();

    //etc etc
}

• This topic was modified 6 years, 2 months ago by Josh Robbs.