how to get recent registered author id?

Question

I have tried to get the recently registered author user ID. i have no code now, because the below code can't use role to filter it.

SELECT max(ID) FROM $wpdb->users LIMIT 1

and get_usersfunction can get list of the users.

not sure.how to obtain results.

Answer 1

I don't think you need any SQL queries.

<?php

$args = array(
    'role'         => 'author', // authors only
    'orderby'      => 'registered', // registered date
    'order'        => 'DESC', // last registered goes first
    'number'       => 1 // limit to the last one, not required
);

$users = get_users( $args );

$last_user_registered = $users[0]; // the first user from the list

echo $last_user_registered->ID; // print user ID

Here you can find complete information on how to use get_users() function.