Can't get a total count for posts in listed loop of category

You can use get_term() like this:

$term_id  = 1; // ID of taxonomy term
$taxonomy = 'category';
$term_obj = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy );
echo '<p>There are ' . $term_obj->count . ' posts in the ' . $term_obj->name . ' category.</p>';

Change the value $term_id to the ID number of your term, and change the value of $taxonomy to the slug of your custom taxonomy if you are using one.

Ok Thanks,

Well I got a result this time. But it returns the value zero for categories.

Cheers,.

Also, for the taxonomy. I use a single taxonomy template but have 7 separate taxonomies. 5 have menubar links but all are listable. How would I get it to distinguish the appropriate taxonomy filter being displayed?

Cheers,.

Hmm I see. I replaced the $term_id with the appropriate number from one of my categories. This worked. However because this is entered in the category template it means all categories will show the number for that one category. I need it to acquire the $term_idfor the category/taxonomy that has been selected.

Cheers,.

WooHoo. I got what I wanted. I found a bit of code that determine the catagory ID and placed it into the $term_id. It’s as follow:

$term_id  = $id = get_queried_object_id(); // ID of taxonomy term
$taxonomy = 'category';
$term_obj = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy );
echo '<p>There are ' . $term_obj->count . ' posts in the ' . $term_obj->name . ' category.</p>';

Cool…

Thanks for your help.

However I can’t get it to work on my Search and Taxonomy templates.

$term_id  = $id = get_queried_object(); // ID of taxonomy term
$taxonomy = 'category';
$term_obj = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy );
echo '<p>There are ' . $term_obj->count . ' posts in the ' . $term_obj->name . ' category.</p>';

This seems to work better. Works for taxonomy also, I just had to put the slug for one of my taxonomies in place of 'category'. Doesn’t seem to effect the results of my count; which is the only part of it that I wanted. My code as follows:

<DIV CLASS="listHeading">
<H3>Showing <SPAN CLASS="entryNo"><?php $term_id  = $id = get_queried_object();
$taxonomy = 'source';
$term_obj = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy );
echo $term_obj->count; ?></SPAN> items for:</H3>
<H2><?php single_cat_title() ?></H2>
</DIV>

Still not working for the search results template… Tried using the values given in my search field tag.

Cheers,.

Yeah, get_queried_object() will have different results on a taxonomy archive than it will on a search archive.

For search, you want to use get_search_query(). However, that will get you the search query, not a taxonomy term…so in that case you would want to count search results instead, yeah?

To echo the number of search results found, use this:

<?php echo $wp_query->found_posts; ?>

In fact, you might be able to just use that on your taxonomy archives as well! ??

Yeah, use something like this on your taxonomy archive and search archive:

<?php
    $page_number = is_paged() ? $wp_query->query_vars['paged'] : 1;
    $current_max = $wp_query->post_count * $page_number;
    $current_min = $current_max - $wp_query->post_count + 1;
?>
Showing <?php echo $current_min; ?> - <?php echo $current_max; ?> of <?php echo $wp_query->found_posts; ?> posts.

The <?php echo $wp_query->found_posts; ?> worked a treat! Thanks