How to get last inserted row ID from WordPress database?

Solution 1:

Straight after the $wpdb->insert() that does the insert, do this:

$lastid = $wpdb->insert_id;

More information about how to do things the WordPress way can be found in the WordPress codex. The details above were found here on the wpdb class page

Solution 2:

This is how I did it, in my code

 ...
 global $wpdb;
 $query =  "INSERT INTO... VALUES(...)" ;
 $wpdb->query(
        $wpdb->prepare($query)
);
return $wpdb->insert_id;
...

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Solution 3:

I needed to get the last id way after inserting it, so

$lastid = $wpdb->insert_id;

Was not an option.

Did the follow:

global $wpdb;
$id = $wpdb->get_var( 'SELECT id FROM ' . $wpdb->prefix . 'table' . ' ORDER BY id DESC LIMIT 1');