Get count for all terms inside a parent term

I don’t know why that code didn’t work for you. I copy that code and it work exactly as I expected. You should double check your case, did you unset $args variable before, or you can use another name ($agrs2 for example).

Another problem in you question is: if pad_counts doesn’t work, you will get 1 not 3.

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