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1. harjeet singh
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   I have one custom page in my blog which shows posts from selected categories. I want to show the post count for the selected categories besides the link for custom page .
   i.e Custom Page (100)
   I searched and got the code for all post count.

   <?php
   $count_posts = wp_count_posts();
   $published_posts = $count_posts->publish;
   echo $published_posts;
   ?>

   what i want to achieve is . . .

   custom result = all posts count - (excluded cat1 post count + excluded cat2 post count)

   I think it clears my question ..

2. MichaelH
   Volunteer
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Didn't test this, but something like:

   $args=array(
     'category__not_in' => array(1,2),
     'post_type' => 'post',
     'post_status' => 'publish',
     'showposts' => -1,
     'caller_get_posts'=> 1
   );
   $poststocount=get_posts($args);
   echo 'all posts count '. count($poststocount);

3. harjeet singh
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Thanks MichaelH , thats works perfectly fine. There's new problem for the values for the excluded categories . I am pulling the values from database and using it as follows but it does not work.

   $custom_post_excluded_categories = explode(',',get_option('excluded_cats'));
   $args=array(
   'category__not_in' => array($custom_post_excluded_categories),
   'post_type' => 'post',
   'post_status' => 'publish',
   'showposts' => -1,
   'caller_get_posts'=> 1
   );
   $poststocount=get_posts($args);
   echo 'all posts count '. count($poststocount);

   the value for excluded_cats = 21,13
   Using the explode command there is no subtraction in the post count.But if i use

   $args=array(
   'category__not_in' => array($excluded_cats),
   'post_type' => 'post',
   'post_status' => 'publish',
   'showposts' => -1,
   'caller_get_posts'=> 1
   );
   $poststocount=get_posts($args);
   echo 'all posts count '. count($poststocount);

   In the result there is subtraction but only for the first category posts.

4. harjeet singh
   Member
   Posted 2 years ago #

   Its solved MichaelH thanks for the support. Here is the final code.

   $args=array(
   'category__not_in' => explode(',',get_option('excluded_cats')),
   'post_type' => 'post',
   'post_status' => 'publish',
   'showposts' => -1,
   'caller_get_posts'=> 1
   );
   $poststocount=get_posts($args);
   echo 'all posts count '. count($poststocount);

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