Checking Daniel Llewellyn code and WordPress’ WP_Query reference, I realized that we need to pass an array of array within the tax_query parameter. Otherwise, it’d just return all post counts. Here is the little modified code: if ( ! function_exists( ‘ipt_kb_total_cat_post_count’ ) ) : /** * Simple function to get category post count including all … Read more
Made a couple of tweaks to brasofilo’s example as we were getting hit with memory execution issues; one of which may be related to a possible switch_to_blog memory leak that has been impacting sites doing a lot of switch_to_blog calls (we would typically run around ~1000 or so when loading this dashboard widget.) Even with … Read more
You need to set the who parameter in get_users <?php $blogusers = get_users( ‘orderby=post_count&who=authors’ ); foreach ( $blogusers as $user ) { echo ‘<li>’ . esc_html( $user->display_name ) . ‘</li>’; } ?> EDIT Seems I was to fast answering. The code in your question and in my answer is the start to what you want … Read more
An alternative solution using WP_Query would be: $args = array( ‘cat’ => 4, ‘post_type’ => ‘videos’ ); $the_query = new WP_Query( $args ); echo $the_query->found_posts;
You can paste this block of code in your currently active WordPress theme functions.php file: function wpse_footer_db_queries(){ echo ‘<!– ‘.get_num_queries().’ queries in ‘.timer_stop(0).’ seconds. –>’.PHP_EOL; } add_action(‘wp_footer’, ‘wpse_footer_db_queries’); The above block of code, will render an HTML comment in the footer of your theme (before </body> and </html>, containing the number of database queries and … Read more
Some additional information, no need to count the posts again, because WP_Query already did that for you. To clarify this, some information from the Class Reference of WP_Query as found in the »Properties« section: $post_count The number of posts being displayed. $found_posts The total number of posts found matching the current query parameters What this … Read more
There is no build in function to achieve what you want, at least not for complicated meta queries like this. If you need to use build in functions for this, the best will be to make use of WP_Query. To make the query faster and to skip the unwanted returned array of WP_Post properties, and … Read more
My approach. No extra function, no filter. 🙂 <?php $GLOBALS[‘wpdb’]->current_post = 0; ?> <div <?php post_class( 0 === ++$GLOBALS[‘wpdb’]->current_post % 3 ? ‘third’ : ” ); ?>> Alternative: <div <?php post_class( 0 === ++$GLOBALS[‘wpdb’]->wpse_post_counter % 3 ? ‘third’ : ” ); ?>>
In SQL Server: