Clint

Sure thing. I’m contacting Carthik, but I couldn’t find any contact information at the other two sites.
To install:

• Cut and paste the following code into a local .php file (I chose countposts.php)
• Put this php file in your wp-content/plugins directory
• Activate plugin
• In your index.php, or wherever you want to use it, call the function like this: <?php count_posts('daily log', '60'); ?>. This yields the number of posts over the last sixty days in the ‘daily log’ category.

Enjoy!
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<?php
/*
Plugin Name: count_posts
Description: A simple function to count posts, with the option of filtering by category or over a recent time span (in days).
Version: 1.0
Author: Clint Howarth
*/
function count_posts ($category = '',
$span = '0')
{
global $tableposts, $tablecategories, $tablepost2cat, $wpdb;
$now = current_time('mysql');
# want the date of $span days ago
if ($span != 0) {
$then = gmdate('Y-m-d H:i:s',
(time() + (get_settings('gmt_offset') * 3600) -
($span * 86400))
);
}
# get category id based on name
if (!empty($category)) {
$catid = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT cat_id FROM $tablecategories
WHERE cat_name = 'daily log' ");
}
# start the query
$query = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $tableposts ";
if (!empty($category)) {
$query .= "LEFT JOIN $tablepost2cat ON
($tableposts.ID = $tablepost2cat.post_id) ";
}
$query .= "WHERE (post_date <= '$now') ";
if (!empty($category)) {
$query .= "AND (category_id = $catid) ";
}
if ($span != 0) {
$query .= "AND (post_date >= '$then') ";
}
$query .= "AND (post_status = 'publish') ";
$number = $wpdb->get_var($query);
echo $number;
}
?>