need help counting number of new posts

Can anyone help?

Old thread, but still relevant..
https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/267931?replies=2#post-1066144

Essentially all you need is a date range, whether you set that to 1 week, 1 minute or whatever doesn’t really matter…

thanks for the tip!

I’m trying to incorporate that with the:

wp_count_posts();

function, but i’m not sure how to go about it. I’m really new to PHP. I’ve got this function to mark a post as new with a div I’ve set up, but don’t think this will work for what I want. It checks if a post is within 3 days new and echoes my div:

function new_post_badge(){
	if ( (time()-get_the_time('U')) <= (3*86400) ) { // The number 3 is how many days to keep posts marked as new
		echo '<div class="new"></div>';
	}
}

perhaps I could set a variable in there instead of a div and have it add a 1 to it every time it runs the code?

https://www.smashingmagazine.com/2009/06/10/10-useful-wordpress-loop-hacks/

There are several, but if you are wanting either between 2 dates or most recent, possibly, the first code snippet tutorial might help?

Thanks for the help, the article is a great read!

The problem though is that I don’t see how to get the total NUMBER of posts. I’ve found many examples on how to retrieve and DISPLAY posts from a date range or whatever. Getting the post count seems to be so hard to find!

perhaps modifying something like this?

<?php
$count=0;
$my_query = new WP_Query('year=2008');
while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post();
$count++;
endwhile;
echo '2008 post count is ' . $count;
?>

Okay, maybe my own template might help and the combination of the first tutorial on Smashing Magazine, which is from, I believe WP recipes

<?php if (have_posts()) : ?>
<?php $postcount = 0; // Initialize the post counter ?>
<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); //start the loop ?>
<?php $postcount++; //add 1 to the post counter ?>

I think with that and what you want, something can be agreed upon within the loop to get your query.

Not completely sure how to implement it. I think I see it, I just don’t know how to blend them.

Here is what I WAS playing with, in case it’s of any help, even though its not at all what you were recommending and even though it just returns a 0. (cue wayne’s world… “I’M NOT WORTHY!”)

<?php
function new_post_count(){
$new_count = 0;
	if ( (time()-get_the_time('U')) <= (3*86400) ) { // The number 3 is how many days to keep posts marked as new
		$new_count++;
	}
echo $new_count;
}
?>

Just found this right here:

<?php
$current_month = date('m');
$current_year = date('Y');
$countposts=get_posts("year=$current_year&monthnum=$current_month");
echo 'the count of posts'  . count($countposts);
?>

trying to modify it to count posts within 3 days instead of a whole month or year.

It would be highly inefficient to query all the posts like that just to count them all.

Here’s a function you can use that will perform a count query, with a few basic options, what you do with the output is up to you..

<?php
function wp_posts_in_days( $args = '' ) {
	global $wpdb;
	$defaults = array(
		'echo' => 1,
		'days' => 30,
		'lookahead' => 0
	);
	$the_args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
	extract( $the_args , EXTR_SKIP );
	unset( $args , $the_args , $defaults );
	$days = intval( $days );
	$operator = ( $lookahead != false ) ? '+' : '-';
	$postsindays = $wpdb->get_col( "
		SELECT COUNT(ID)
		FROM $wpdb->posts
		WHERE (1=1
		AND post_type = 'post'
		AND post_status = 'publish'
		AND post_date >= '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime("$operator$days days")) . "')"
	);
		if($echo != false) :
			echo $postsindays[0];
		else :
			return $postsindays[0];
		endif;
	return;
}
?>

Then call the function like so, wherever you want to show the numeric count of the posts in X amount of days..

Examples:

// wp_posts_in_days('days=5');
// wp_posts_in_days('days=5&lookahead=1&echo=1');
echo wp_posts_in_days('days=5&echo=0');

Default is to echo, but if you want to return the value instead just add echo=0 ..

Days = number of days to look behind (or ahead, see below)
Lookahead = Switches the operator, – or + , default is minus, look behind, set to 1 or true to look ahead (perhaps if you used future posts and wanted to count).

Hopefully helps.. feel free to tweak or adjust as required..

t31os_ thank you so much for the in-depth response. I also got a response from MichaelH the moderator, this is what he suggested and it works:

<?php
  function filter_where($where = '') {
    //posts in the last 30 days
    $where .= " AND post_date > '" . date('Y-m-d', strtotime('-90 days')) . "'";
    return $where;
  }
add_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');
    $args=array(
      'post_type' => 'post',
      'post_status' => 'publish',
      'showposts' => -1,
      'caller_get_posts'=> 1
      );
$my_query=new WP_Query($args);
remove_filter('posts_where', 'filter_where');

  if( $my_query->have_posts() ) {
    echo '<h2>Number of posts in last 90 days is '.count($my_query->posts) . '</h2>';
    while ($my_query->have_posts()) : $my_query->the_post(); ?>
      <p><small><?php the_time('m.d.y') ?></small> <a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></p>
     <?php
    endwhile;
  } //if ($my_query)
wp_reset_query(); //just in case
?>

I’ve give both a try.

Well either method should work, but i would go so far as to say querying for all post data just to count is somewhat inefficient.

The function i provided is made for the job and will count the results of a single column (the index), which should be faster..

Just do whatever works or suits you best though.. ??

My code was actually partially based on some code Michael originally wrote, so i’m no way dismissing his suggestion.. ??