{"id":1516,"date":"2023-01-25T13:39:49","date_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:39:49","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/?p=1516"},"modified":"2023-01-25T13:45:57","modified_gmt":"2023-01-25T13:45:57","slug":"wordpress-how-to-get-the-post-count-for-a-term-and-post-type","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.darrenlambert.com\/wordpress-how-to-get-the-post-count-for-a-term-and-post-type\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress: How to get the post count for a term and post type"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The WordPress function <a href=\"https:\/\/developer.wordpress.org\/reference\/functions\/get_term\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">get_term<\/a> returns the count for the number of posts in the term, but this is for all post types.\u00a0 You need a custom function to count the number of posts in a term for a specific post_type.<\/p>\n<pre>\/**\r\n* Returns the number of posts for a term in a taxonomy, for a post type\r\n* @param string $post_type\r\n* @param string $taxonomy\r\n* @return int count\r\n*\/\r\nfunction get_post_count_for_term_and_post_type( $term_id, $taxonomy, $post_type ) {\r\n\r\n  \/\/ Build the args\r\n  $args = array(\r\n    'post_type' =&gt; 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