WordPress – how to retrieve the ID from a given meta
With WordPress, it is common to use the get_post_meta($post, $meta_key) method in order to retrieve the value of a given meta. However for the ID, there is no ready-made method. The best solution I’ve found so far: $mid = $wpdb->get_var( $wpdb->prepare(“SELECT meta_id FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE post_id = %d AND meta_key = %s”, $post, $meta_key) );