Post Grid plugin (and similar) – Search Parameters

Hello

I am using the Post Grid plugin. There are quite a few similar plugins so this question probably applies to them as well.

Once a Post Grid is set up, there are further option fields in the Query Post section, for example:
Post Types, Post query order, Posts per page.

The option field I need to know more about is the Search parameter field.

The description below this field is:

Query post by search keyword, please follow the reference https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Search_Parameter

Which eventually leads to this page: https://developer.www.ads-software.com/reference/classes/wp_query/#search-parameters

And its description of the search parameters:

Search Parameters
Show posts based on a keyword search.
? s (string) – Search keyword.
Show Posts based on a keyword search
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$query = new WP_Query( array( ‘s’ => ‘keyword’ ) );
Prepending a term with a hyphen will exclude posts matching that term. Eg, ‘pillow -sofa’ will return posts containing ‘pillow’ but not ‘sofa’ (available since Version 4.4).

I have played around with so many different combinations in this field, tyring to do something simple like display the post if its slug is “hello”, so I have entered combinations like:

$pagename="hello"
pagename="hello"
pagename=hello
“pagename”="hello"
$query = new WP_Query( array( 'pagename' => hello ) );

I’ve used single-quotes, double-quotes.
Instead of pagenames, I’ve used title, Title, page-title, post-title, page_title, post_title, etc.

In the end, I have no idea how to use this filed.
If anyone has ANY examples, so I could just see the format required etc.

Thank you
Garrett

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