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1. julianens
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   where can I find an auto-increment counter for wordpress?
   I want it to returns a number that is incremented each time this tag is called.
   so that I can count the front-page posts.. identifying them as
   <div id='post1'>
   <div id='post2'>
   <div id='post3'>
   <div id='post4'>
   and so on.. automaticaly..

   how can i do that?

   thanks in advance.

2. stvwlf
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   it's built in

   $wp_query->post_count is the # of posts on the page

   $wp_query->current_post is the # of the current post on the page

   current post starts at zero, post_count starts at 1

3. Shane G
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   Hi,

   I personally refer you to go with the statcounter plugin for statistics for your site..you can download it from here:

   http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/official-statcounter-plugin-for-wordpress/

   Thanks,

   Shane G.

4. julianens
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   stvwlf,

   i undestand that the <?php the_ID(); ?> tag does the counting automatically.
   but its count is very strange.. cause it goes from 49 on the first post to 43 on the second post.

   what i really need is a simple increasing id number.. starting from 0.
   exactly like this:
   <div id='post0'> for post one (most recent post)
   <div id='post1'> for post two
   ...
   until..
   <div id='post9'> for post ten (last post of the page)

   i know that textpattern has a plugin called rvm_counter that does this like a charm. but I wanted something for wordpress.

   how can I add this on the loop? is that possible on wordpress?

   thanks in advance.

5. julianens
   Member
   Posted 5 months ago #

   oh, i got it now.

   i wrote <div id="post<?php echo($wp_query->current_post + 1); ?>"> to the loop and it worked.

   thanks! :)

6. ciuchlux
   Member
   Posted 4 months ago #

   Is it posible to show count from last one ?
   post 11
   post 10
   ....

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