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How to show total number of Categories? (3 posts)

  1. altafsayani
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    Hi,
    I want to show total number of categories in my wordpress theme. Can anyone tell me the code to show it or any plugin which can do this job?

  2. MichaelH
    Volunteer
    Posted 3 years ago # 

    <?php
$category_count = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->term_taxonomy WHERE taxonomy = 'category'");?>
<p><?php echo 'category count is ' . $category_count; ?></p>

    Synthesized from example in the Codex article, wpdb.

  3. altafsayani
    Member
    Posted 3 years ago #

    thnx for the help ..

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