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t31os_ thank you so much for the in-depth response. I also got a response from MichaelH the moderator, this is what he suggested and it works:

<?php
  function filter_where($where = '') {
    //posts in the last 30 days
    $where .= " AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-90 days')) . "'";
    return $where;
  }
add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'showposts' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
$my_query=new WP_Query($args);
remove_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');

  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
    echo '<h2>Number of posts in last 90 days is '.count($my_query->posts) . '</h2>';
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p><small><?php the_time('m.d.y') ?></small> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
     <?php
    endwhile;
  } //if ($my_query)
wp_reset_query(); //just in case
?>

I’ve give both a try.

Just found this right here:

<?php
$current_month = date('m');
$current_year = date('Y');
$countposts=get_posts("year=$current_year&monthnum=$current_month");
echo 'the count of posts'  . count($countposts);
?>

trying to modify it to count posts within 3 days instead of a whole month or year.

perhaps modifying something like this?

<?php
$count=0;
$my_query = new WP_Query('year=2008');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$count++;
endwhile;
echo '2008 post count is ' . $count;
?>

thanks for the tip!

I’m trying to incorporate that with the:

wp_count_posts();

function, but i’m not sure how to go about it. I’m really new to PHP. I’ve got this function to mark a post as new with a div I’ve set up, but don’t think this will work for what I want. It checks if a post is within 3 days new and echoes my div:

function new_post_badge(){
	if ( (time()-get_the_time('U')) <= (3*86400) ) { // The number 3 is how many days to keep posts marked as new
		echo '<div class="new"></div>';
	}
}

perhaps I could set a variable in there instead of a div and have it add a 1 to it every time it runs the code?

Anyone have any tips?