Post, Comment, Category Count

  • Is there any way to display the amount of posts, comments and categories within a blog?

    I’ve had a look through the template tags and can’t seem to find anything.

    Any help?

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  • https://mtdewvirus.com/code/wordpress-plugins/

    Look there for Post and Comment count plugins.

    I don’t know of a plugin for displaying # of categories, but here’s a bit of PHP that will do it:

    <?php
    $cat_count = count($wpdb->get_col("SELECT cat_ID FROM $wpdb->categories WHERE category_count > 0"));
    ?>

    Place this somewhere in your template. Then to display the count:

    <?php echo $cat_count; ?>

    Thread Starter chrisgwynne

    (@chrisgwynne)

    Thank you, those work excellently! ??

    Or a more efficient query would be this:

    $cat_count = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(cat_ID) FROM $wpdb->categories WHERE category_count > 0");

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