Should be Easy: know how much posts there are inside a category

This works but it’s not recursive:
(int) get_category($CATEGORY_ID)->category_count;

<?php
$category_posts = get_term('56','category');
echo $category_posts->count;
unset($category_posts);
?>

Update 56 to the ID for your category.

Hope that helps… ??

Thank you t31os_

This is for sure cleaner code, but it’s not counting the posts in the sub-categories of that category.

How can I do?

Sub-category posts aren’t part of the count for posts in the parent..

However being that i’m a nice guy…

<?php
$catid = '56';
$category_posts = get_term($catid,'category');
$subcatposts = get_terms('category', 'parent='.$catid);

$post_count = $category_posts->count;
unset($category_posts);

foreach($subcatposts as $subcat) {
	$post_count = $post_count + $subcat->count;
}
unset($subcatposts);
echo $post_count;
?>

There’s no error checking in that code, as in the foreach loop is expecting results, if it doesn’t have any you’ll get errors..

Code works though!… ??

Thank you very much kitty !!!

Now I don’t need pages anymore …

Happy to help… ??