Show post counts with category name

Hi there,

if you want to add that kind of data to your design, you will need to create a shortcode that you can add to your site.

1. Add this PHP Snippet to your site:

// Add Shortcode to show posts count inside a category
function category_post_count( $atts ) {

    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
        'category' => null
    ), $atts );

    // get the category by slug.
    $term = get_term_by( 'slug', $atts['category'], 'category');

    return ( isset( $term->count ) ) ? $term->count : 0;
}
add_shortcode( 'category_post_count', 'category_post_count' );

2. In a GB Headline block add the shortcode ie. [category_post_count category="category_slug_or_name"]
Where it says the category_slug_or_name change that to the term slug that you want to display the count for.

For reference and kudos, this is where that code came from:

https://wordpress.stackexchange.com/a/240763

Hello,

This fixed what I was looking.

Regards

Glad to hear that!

Hello, it works with categorys perfect - what have i to change, that it also works with tags? So that i see the number of posts with a tag. When i replace 'category' with 'tag' or 'post_tag' in this code, it doesn't work. Can you give a hint please? Thank you.

After try and error - i think, this is the solution:

function tag_post_count( $atts ) {
    $atts = shortcode_atts( array(
        'tag' => null
    ), $atts );
    // get the tag by slug.
    $term = get_term_by( 'slug', $atts['tag'], 'post_tag');
    return ( isset( $term->count ) ) ? $term->count : 0;
}
add_shortcode( 'tag_post_count', 'tag_post_count' );

Thanks for sharing!