Is there a cleaner way to get post count for a category in category.php?
What you’ve got is basically correct. This is the correct method for getting the total number of posts in the currnet category: $category = get_queried_object(); $category_total = $category->count; There shouldn’t be any performance impact from using this, as the count property is only updated when new posts are published, and doesn’t need to be calculated … Read more