Shortcode category using slug in addition to name and id?

Hi Mat,

It seems like the shortcode category attribute takes the category name, but doesn’t take the slug. I’m looking at lines 127 through 136 in SimpleLinksFactory.php:

foreach( $this->query_args[ 'category' ] as $cat ){
				if( is_numeric( $cat ) ){
					$cat = get_term_by( 'id', $cat, 'simple_link_category' );
				} else {
					$cat = get_term_by( 'name', $cat, 'simple_link_category' );
				}
				if( ! empty( $cat->term_id ) ){
					$all_cats[] = $cat->term_id;
				}
			}

Would it be possible to modify this to search for slug as well? I just find slugs much easier to deal with. Since get_term_by returns false if the term can’t be found, maybe it could look something like this?

$cat = get_term_by( 'name', $cat, 'simple_link_category' );
if (!$cat) {
    $cat = get_term_by( 'slug', $cat, 'simple_link_category' );
}

Let me know what you think.

Thanks!

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