Get current user last post date

Question

So i need to get and echo current users last post date.

What i have researched and tested.

Red article here: https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_most_recent_post_of_user/

Red this thread here but none of the codes worked: Get how many days since last post of the current user

The best codes i tried was this and it didn't work.

$user_id = wp_get_current_user();
echo get_most_recent_post_of_user( $user_id );

$user_id == 2;
echo get_most_recent_post_of_user( $user_id );

Answer 1

Is that the only code you've used? As the name suggests that function returns the entire post, not just the date. You still need to actually get the date from that post.

$user_id = 2;
$post = get_most_recent_post_of_user( $user_id );

if ( $post ) {
    echo get_the_date( 'Y-m-d', $post );
}

See the PHP documentation on date formats for other ways to format the date.

Answer 2

I found a bad solution but it works for me. If someone wants to improve this code or has a better solution i would be thankfull.

$user_id = get_current_user_id();

        $args=array(
            'post_type' => 'post',
            'post_status' => 'published',
            'posts_per_page' => 1,
            'ignore_sticky_posts' => 1,
            'author' => $user_id
        );                       
        $wp_query = new WP_Query($args);
        while ( have_posts() ) : the_post(); 
        
            echo the_title();   
            echo get_the_time('Y-m-d', $post->ID);
            
        endwhile;