Count posts within a custom post type and specific taxonomy and terms?

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Count posts within a custom post type and specific taxonomy and terms?

Red

2022年2月7日 08:09

I'm looking to count how many post live within the custom post type called "videos", but only the ones from the category called "work".

?php $count_posts = wp_count_posts('videos'); echo $count_posts-publish; // ?

How can I adjust the above code to accomplish this?

Thanks!

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Cato · Accepted Answer · 2020年8月21日 07:09

Found this while looking into a similar thing myself so here's my solution in case it's useful for anyone else... Note: Harmonic's answer works, depending on scenario though it may be easier to do this instead:

$count = get_category($category->term_id)->category_count;

Where $category is your taxonomy object.

Important note here being that this assumes no other post_type uses the same taxonomy. Details: get_category() is actually a wrapper function of get_term().

In this case, get_term() has a name__like parameter that get_category() doesn't. There are probably other little differences too.

See: get_term() get_category

Harmonic · Accepted Answer · 2019年4月4日 18:01

I know that this is an old thread, but it shows up first in Google, so here is the REAL solution on how to do this.

$term = get_term( $termId, $taxonomy );
$total_in_term = $term->count;

So you need to pass the ID of the term and the taxonomy. This is the lightest weight solution as well as having the benefit of working with custom taxonomies.

Viktor Kruglikov · Accepted Answer · 2015年11月10日 09:06

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Viktor Kruglikov answered at 2015年11月10日 09:06

This also should work:

$category = get_term('work', 'category');
$posts_in_category = $category->count;

michalzuber · Accepted Answer · 2015年8月26日 11:30

For a specific custom taxonomy try:

$the_query = new WP_Query( array(
    'post_type' => 'CUSTOM_POST_TYPE',
    'tax_query' => array(
        array(
            'taxonomy' => 'CUSTOM_TAXONOMY',
            'field' => 'id',
            'terms' => TERM_ID
        )
    )
) );
$count = $the_query->found_posts;

Documentation at https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Taxonomy_Parameters

Kwag.degi · Accepted Answer · 2014年7月24日 21:39

Basically if you do it with your found solution, you will waste quite much DB resources when you have lots of posts to fetch.

$query = new WP_Query();
echo $query->found_posts();

However WP_Query->found_posts just fetch 'posts_per_page' and do COUNT(*) mysql job for you. So I recommend you to use the latter one.

Stephen S. · Accepted Answer · 2014年3月2日 21:53

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Stephen S. answered at 2014年3月2日 21:53

An alternative solution using WP_Query would be:

$args = array(
  'cat' => 4,
  'post_type' => 'videos'
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
echo $the_query->found_posts;

Red · Accepted Answer · 2013年3月4日 03:03

1

Red answered at 2013年3月4日 03:03

Found a solution.

<?php $posts = get_posts('post_type=videos&category=4'); 
$count = count($posts); 
echo $count; 
?>

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