Comments on: Show total number of search results in your WordPress search template

By: andy

andy — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 17:07:54 +0000

@Maria and @Morten – you should be able ot use @Oncle Tom's contribution and use the found_posts property from the global $wp_query object:

global $wp_query;
query_posts("tag=$tagname");
echo $wp_query->found_posts . ' post(s) found for '. $tagname;

By: Morten

Morten — Tue, 28 Sep 2010 16:03:06 +0000

Would love to know the answer to Marias question about tags…

Best
M

By: andy

andy — Sun, 23 May 2010 16:37:16 +0000

@Oncle Tom — that’s even better, thanks!

By: Oncle Tom

Oncle Tom — Sun, 23 May 2010 12:24:48 +0000

Even simpler: found_posts ?> results for the search ‘’

By: Maria

Maria — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 16:31:19 +0000

I’m trying to count the number of posts with a particular tag and I’m using the following code:

query(‘tag=TAGNAME’);
echo ‘TAGNAME: ‘ . $my_query->post_count .”;
wp_reset_query(); ?>

I’ve tried adding your code in, in various permutations, but I keep getting out either the total number of posts, or the total posts per page each time when the counts are more than the number of posts allowed per page.

Do you have any suggestions here?

- Maria

By: Zoinks! Graphics

Zoinks! Graphics — Wed, 28 Oct 2009 02:43:21 +0000

Thanks for sharing. I use it to limit whether or not the navigation links display to save page space. This works great!!

By: Reino

Reino — Thu, 01 Oct 2009 08:08:54 +0000

Great post! Works for me!

By: Jermaine Maree

Jermaine Maree — Tue, 08 Sep 2009 16:06:15 +0000

This really came in handy! Was having a similar issue, but it was displaying total posts instead. The posts_per_page=-1 fixed the issue Thanks!