Title: Archive with post count
Last modified: January 10, 2017

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# Archive with post count

 *  [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-with-post-count/)
 * I’m trying to find a way to produce a list of posts, grouped as individual months,
   and with a post-count for the posts-per-month.
 * ——————
    The format is this, in which x is the post count for that month:
 * December 2016 [x]
    Post 1 title. Post 2 title.
 * November 2016 [x]
    Post 1 title. Post 2 title. ——————
 * I can get the list/format- but don’t know how to include a count.
 * I haven’t included (but will if required) my current code, because there’s various
   versions of it and I don’t know if it’s a sensible basis – so rather than try
   to improve something which may be flawed, I’m open to fresh suggestions.

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 *  Moderator [bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)
 * (@bcworkz)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-with-post-count/#post-8638666)
 * Since posts are generally listed in chronological order, you already have the
   proper listing, it’s just the month labels and counts are missing. You can start
   with the standard Loop and add code that detects when the current post’s month
   changes from the previous post’s. This can be done through one of the PHP date
   formatting functions.
 * If you just needed a month label, that would be it. Just output the label and
   wait until the month changes again. Because you want a count that needs to be
   output before all the posts for the month are output, it gets more complicated.
   You need to make use of PHP’s output buffering so that output is not immediately
   sent to the browser, but placed into a buffer.
 * When you output the month label after starting the buffer, include a placeholder
   string for the count that is very unlikely to occur naturally in the buffered
   output. Something like `%count%` for example. Keep a running tally of posts that
   are output to the buffer. When the month changes again, collect the buffer contents
   into a variable and do a search/replace for that placeholder and insert the actual
   count in its place. Now the variable with the buffer content and count value 
   can be output to the browser and the process restarted for the next month.
 *  Thread Starter [gulliver](https://wordpress.org/support/users/gulliver/)
 * (@gulliver)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-with-post-count/#post-8640856)
 * [@bcworkz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bcworkz/)… thanks. I think perhaps
   I’ve posted in the wrong forum – because i don’t know enough to be able to act
   on your suggestion.

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 * Last activity: [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/archive-with-post-count/#post-8640856)
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