How to show the number of posts from one category on category archive page

  • Resolved mfuchs

    (@mfuchs)


    15 years, 8 months ago

    Hey there together,

    I ran into yet another problem that I can’t seem to figure out even after searching the forum and consulting Google…

    On my category archive page I want to display the number of posts from the category the user is just looking at. And I don’t want to install yet another plugin to do that, there must be some simple one lince code that I could just add to the template file.

    Any help would be highly appreciated!

    Thanks a lot,
    Martin

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  • <?php
$cat = get_query_var('cat');
$categories=get_categories('include='.$cat);
if ($categories) {
  foreach($categories as $category) {
    echo 'Posts in this category = ' . $category->count;
  }
}
?>
    Thread Starter mfuchs

    (@mfuchs)

    Thanks a lot Michael. That worked. Would you be able to let me know the same kind of code to use to display the total number of posts within a monthly archive?

    display the total number of posts within a monthly archive

    <?php
if ( is_month() ) {
$month = get_query_var('monthnum');
$year = get_query_var('year');
$countposts=get_posts("year=$year&monthnum=$month");
echo 'the count of posts in ' . $month .'/'.$year . ' is '  . count($countposts);
}
?>

    What’s the code to display the number of post for just one particular category? For example: Comic.

    Thanks!

    Hi 67thavenue,

    Try this code where 123 is the ID of the category. This will single out just that category.

    <?php
$cat = get_query_var('cat');
$categories=get_categories('include=123'.$cat);
if ($categories) {
  foreach($categories as $category) {
    echo '' . $category->count;
  }
}
?>
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