How to display not post categories

Glad to help.

So the “ads” are regular WP posts, correct?

Just want to make sure so I can provide accurate information, thank you.

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 4 days ago by Jeff Starr.

Thanks for the quick reply.
In reality, the ads are managed by the Directorist – Business Directory Plugin. It is possible to manage ads by dividing them into categories.
Among other things, by doing some tests, I saw that your plugin was able to count the total number of ads and other informations.

Exemple: With ths shortcode [sbs_cpts_count] gives these informations

• 3 Template
• 13 Listings
• 0 Ordinamento
• 1 Pagina di MailPoet
• 1 Template

What I would like to do is simply count the number of ads for each category. I hope I was clear…

Ok so if I understand correctly you can display your CPT count like this:

[sbs_cpt_count cpt="template"]

Replace “template” with the id/slug of your CPT.

This is documented here with more details, just fyi.

I hope this helps, let me know if I can provide any further information.

As you can see in the image, using the slug does not work (the “Biostimolanti” category actually contains 4 listings). I tried even with the ID, but nothing. In black you can see the father-category, in green all the under-categories. Could this be a problem?

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 4 days ago by carlopantaleo.
• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 4 days ago by carlopantaleo.

Glad to help.

In your previous comment you said that [sbs_cpts_count] (which only works with custom post types) is working to display the list of counts for your custom post types. So in my reply, I assumed that you were trying to display counts for custom post types. That is why I mentioned the [sbs_cpt_count cpt="template"] shortcode, which only works with custom post types.

But now in your follow up comment, you are calling them “categories” (i.e., the “Biostimolanti” category), so I am confused. Both of the shortcodes that I mention previously in this comment work only with custom post types. So if you want to display counts for categories instead, try this:

[sbs_posts cat="CAT_ID"]

Replace “CAT_ID” with the actual category ID. Again this is explained in the plugin documentation with more details, just fyi.

• This reply was modified 3 weeks, 3 days ago by Jeff Starr.