Count One Higher on Footer Widget in Post

It could be a conflict with your theme, or with another plugin. What happens is that plugins and themes call/output a set of posts using a custom loop. If/when the developer forgets to properly “reset” the loop, it can cause problems for any other loops executed thereafter. So in the footer that would make sense as it comes after any/all other loops on the page.

Thanks for the quick response. It’s my child theme, so I should be able to do a loop reset.

Here is a guide with some different ways to reset the loop.

Also before changing any code, you could test the theory by switching to one of the default WP themes. They all are good at resetting any custom loops, so the shortcode should work fine in that case.

Hi @cogdog, just wanted to follow up with this. It’s been awhile with no reply, so I hope the issue is resolved? Or if there is anything I can do to help, please let me know. Thank you.

Thanks for the follow-up, Jeff, you are a valuable exception here on providing quick and responsive help.

No I had no luck adding any of the query reset commands after my main loop. Since this is my own child theme I found an easier solution to roll my own simple shortcode:

// ----- short code for number of things in this splot
add_shortcode('splotcount', 'splot_count_splots');

function splot_count_splots() {
	return wp_count_posts()->publish;
}

Yup resolved.

Great news, glad you found a solution @cogdog.