WP_Query: how to get posts with and ID lower than

Have you looked here?

https://stackoverflow.com/questions/10827671/how-to-get-posts-greater-than-x-id-using-get-posts

That questions pertains to posts greater than X but vice-versa should apply the same logic.

Yeah I saw that one, but it seemed overly complicated to me.
First doing an extra query to get all IDs?
WTF … then i could directly do one query to get the posts.

Is there really no easier way to do this seemingly simple query?

I’m not seeing a different way but that is one way.

I’ll keep searching for you.

What about something like this (where you’d change 50 to the highest post ID that you want included):

$post_ids = range(1, 50); 

$args = array(
    'post__in' => $post_ids
    );

@girlieworks

This also may me a viable option, nice find ??

range … didn′t know that one … thanks alot @girlieworks

Glad @girlieworks code suggestion worked, excellent advice!