Category counts not adding up right

  • Resolved drgeo

    (@drgeo)


    9 years ago

    The counts for the Parent category are not showing the right count. It seems to be adding up all the boxes that are checked in the parent category and subcategories. For example, if I am advertising a 2013 Ford Explorer and I select the parent category of Cars the count for Cars is 1. If I then check the two subcategories of Ford and SUV, the count for the parent category of Cars now shows 3 even though it is only 1 car. that doesn’t seem right. Am I doing something wrong, or are you only allowed to select either 1 parent category or 1 subcategory and no parent category?

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  • Plugin Author Greg Winiarski

    (@gwin)

    The problem here is that WordPress stores only number of items in a category, in order to display total number of items i need to sum number of items in each subcategory.

    For example lets assume there is “Category A” with “Subcategory B” and “Subcategory C”, each of this subcategories has 10 items, so the structure would look like this

    Category A (0)
+- Subcategory B (10)
+- Subcategory C (10)

    So the Category A has actually 20 items, this is calculated by adding items in each “Category A” subcategory, but WordPress is only able to tell how many items there is in a (sub)category not if the categories include the same items.

    In other words the category counts display number of selected categories, not number of distinct items. I do agree that it would be more useful to display number of distinct items, but unfortunately this kind of calculation would slow down the site performance.

    Thread Starter drgeo

    (@drgeo)

    Thanks for the explanation Greg. I believe I will turn off counts to avoid any confusion.

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