Title: if latest_post?
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# if latest_post?

 *  [robomilk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robomilk/)
 * (@robomilk)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-latest_post/)
 * Is there any way at all (plugin, hack, etc.) to get WordPress to identify whether
   the current post is the latest one published?
 * This needs to work on single post pages and ignore posts set to be automatically
   published at a later date.
 * Any ideas folks?

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 *  Moderator [Samuel Wood (Otto)](https://wordpress.org/support/users/otto42/)
 * (@otto42)
 * WordPress.org Admin
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-latest_post/#post-677286)
 * You could just get the latest published post and compare the ID numbers.
 *     ```
       $latestposts = get_posts('numberposts=1');
       $latestpost = $latestposts[0];
       if (get_the_ID() == $latestpost->ID) {
       // this is the latest post
       } else {
       // it's not
       }
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [robomilk](https://wordpress.org/support/users/robomilk/)
 * (@robomilk)
 * [18 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/if-latest_post/#post-677292)
 * Took a bit of hacking together with my existing code, but it worked. Thanks 🙂

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