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1. conditionkill
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   I'm wondering if it's possible to show the post number of the post?
   E.g. the third post I write should say "Post no. 3".. And so on..

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Every post written in WP has a post ID # that identifies it, in the database.

   You can add that ID # to your post by using <?php the_ID(); ?> ,
   just as you will find in your theme <?php the_content(); ?>

   Just add that to your template files.

   More info:
   http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_ID

3. conditionkill
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Yeah.. Uhm.. Already tried that.. Didn't really work..
   The ID's for the posts increases by 2 for each post (sometimes (randomly) even more).. : \
   Here's a screen of how it looks with the id tag:
   http://img6.imageshack.us/img6/97/200902201254312sz2.png

4. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   How are you defining "third post I write" then - do you mean the 3rd post that is displaying on the page the person is looking at?

5. conditionkill
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Uhm.. No.. The 3rd post ever written..

6. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Wordpress doesn't keep track of things that way. What happens to the # sequence if you delete a post you wrote 6 months ago? Or change it from published to private or draft status? What happens if you change the published date of a post you wrote 2 weeks ago to be 2 weeks previous, or two weeks ahead of its first published date?

   So the order would need to be assign in a dynamic query run every time you want to find out a post's #. I assume you want the oldest to start at #1, which means to know the # of a post written today, every post you have ever written would need to be included in the query, to determine what the present post # should be.

   This can be done, but its a lot of work.

   On the other hand, someone else may come up with a better approach than I have.

7. conditionkill
   Member
   Posted 9 months ago #

   Hmm.. Okay.

8. SRJM
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   function Get_Post_Number($postID){
   	$postNumberQuery = new WP_Query('orderby=date&posts_per_page=-1');
   	$counter = 1;
   	$postCount = 0;
   	while ($postNumberQuery->have_posts()) : $postNumberQuery->the_post();
   		if ($postID == get_the_ID()){
   			$postCount = $counter;
   			echo("true");
   		} else {
   			$counter++;
   		}
   	endwhile;
   	return $postCount;
   }

   I was looking for solutions for something similar but there isn't a lot around in the way of actual answers...
   This is just an idea to get started but unfortunately because it's a second loop you can't run it inside the main loop without it interfering (it overwrites the_post() global variable I'm guessing). I'll be looking into running a loop inside a loop soon enough though.

9. SRJM
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Update on that:

   function Get_Post_Number($postID){
   	$temp_query = $wp_query;
   	$postNumberQuery = new WP_Query('orderby=date&posts_per_page=-1');
   	$counter = 1;
   	$postCount = 0;
   	if($postNumberQuery->have_posts()) :
   		while ($postNumberQuery->have_posts()) : $postNumberQuery->the_post();
   			if ($postID == get_the_ID()){
   				$postCount = $counter;
   			} else {
   				$counter++;
   			}
   	endwhile; endif;
   	wp_reset_query();
   	$wp_query = $temp_query;
   	return $postCount;
   }

   will work inside your main loop:

   <?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
   	<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post();
   		$currentID = get_the_ID();
   		$currentNumber = Get_Post_Number($currentID);

   etc. etc.
   Also I'm deliberately ordering them so that the newest post is number 1 but I don't think it would take much more to order them oldest first if that is what you wanted.

10. levi88
    Member
    Posted 3 months ago #

    Fascinating solution. How would you insert
    

    $currentID = get_the_ID();
    $currentNumber = Get_Post_Number($currentID);

    inside a div, though?

11. RyanRayLA
    Member
    Posted 2 days ago #

    Thanks a MILLION SRJM!!

    Let me repeat how this works and elaborate and also explain how to change the assigned post number from oldest last/newest first.

    Create a new function in the Functions.php as follows

    function Get_Post_Number($postID){
    	$temp_query = $wp_query;
    	$postNumberQuery = new WP_Query('orderby=date&order=<strong>DESC</strong>&posts_per_page=-1');
    	$counter = 1;
    	$postCount = 0;
    	if($postNumberQuery->have_posts()) :
    		while ($postNumberQuery->have_posts()) : $postNumberQuery->the_post();
    			if ($postID == get_the_ID()){
    				$postCount = $counter;
    			} else {
    				$counter++;
    			}
    	endwhile; endif;
    	wp_reset_query();
    	$wp_query = $temp_query;
    	return $postCount;
    }

    (Change above bolded ASC to DESC if you want to see the numbers in reverse (latest post as highest number).)

    Then in the index.php (or page template), anywhere after "<?php if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>" just add the following code wherever you want the Post # to show up.

    <?php $currentID = get_the_ID(); ?>
    <?php $currentNumber = Get_Post_Number($currentID); ?>
    
    <?php echo $currentNumber; ?>

    Good luck, everyone!!!

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