Take the 2-minute tour ×  Been all over looking for the best way
to do this.  I want to get the ID of the latest post of a
certain post_type.  How can I do this in the cheapest way
possible (by cheapest I mean using the least queries, and no
loops or post rewinding)?  Surely there is a quick method?
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down vote accepted $latest_cpt =
get_posts("post_type=yourcpt&numberposts=1"); echo
$latest_cpt[0]->ID  The only cheaper way than above, I can think
of, would be to write your own SQL query to just return the one
post and only the column ID.  share|improve this answer Yes,
that's it! I've been skirting around it. Thanks @brady –  Niels
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