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I want to create a drop down in my WordPress admin containing all posts, pages and custom post types. The return value should be a link to that page or an ID of the page.

Is there something build in for this, or is there an easy way to do it? Thanks in forward.

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There is nothing build-in to create the drop-down for you, so you have to do it yourself. To get the needed information you can use get_post_types() to get the post types you want, set the $args parameter accordingly.
Additionally you can set the $ouput parameter to objects, if you need the data provided - it defaults to names and then you will just get those. Take a look at the get_post_type_object() to see how the returned objects are structured.
As for the dropdown, as I said, you have to build it yourself - this really isn't WordPress specific, but a really simple PHP task. For the dropdown you'll need the links to the different post type edit screens. They generally look like this: http://site.ext/wp-admin/edit.php?post_type=posttypename If you're not sure how to build it, then perform a internet search, because how to construct a dropdown has certainly been the topic somewhere already.

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