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1. Il Gatto
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Hello,

   I'm trying to display a integer with total post counts of a specific category including all its child categories (over one hundred).

   wp count posts doesn't work for me because it counts everything, while I only need a precise category and all its child categories

   I've tried with wp list categories, but it returns also an array with category names; I don't need the category names, only the total count of posts and it must be a sum of all posts from these different categories

   I haven't found any plugin suitable for my goal

   how to achieve what I want?

   thanks for the help

2. MichaelH
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   Didn't test much but try:
   

   <?php
   //return count of post in category child of ID 15
   $count = 0;
   $taxonomy = 'category';
   $args = array(
     'child_of' => 15,
   );
   $tax_terms = get_terms($taxonomy,$args);
   foreach ($tax_terms as $tax_term) {
   $count +=$tax_term->count;
   }
   echo 'count ' . $count;
   ?>

3. Il Gatto
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   wonderful Michael! It works like a charm

   there's only a minor quirk to solve now....

   some posts are counted twice because they're two level deep

   Category 1
   |-Category 2 (child of 1)
   --|--Category 3 (child of 2)

   using your code if we count all posts in category 1 and there's a post in category 3, that post is counted twice because it shows up also as a post in category 2

   I've currently 2 dummy posts in the theme I'm preparing but your code shows a count of 4 because of the reason explained above

   thanks a lot though :) this is very close to what I was looking for

4. Il Gatto
   Member
   Posted 3 years ago #
   

   bump

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