Title: $counter issue
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# $counter issue

 *  [Stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefan83/)
 * (@stefan83)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/)
 * Hi
 * The following code inserts a <div class=”row thirds”> div every 3 posts. But 
   if there are 3 posts, an empty <div class=”row thirds”> is added. How do I prevent
   the empty div?
 * Thanks
 *     ```
       <div class="row thirds">
       <?php
       // Find connected pages
       $connected = new WP_Query( array(
         'connected_type' => '2-col-module_to_pages',
         'connected_items' => get_queried_object(),
         'nopaging' => true,
       ) );
   
       // Display connected pages
       if ($connected->have_posts() ) : while ($connected->have_posts()) : $connected->the_post(); ?>
   
                       <h2><?php the_title();?></h2>
   
       <?php $counter++;
       // add row div every 3 posts
             if ($counter % 3 == 0) {
                echo '</div><div class="row thirds">';
                }
               endwhile;  wp_reset_postdata(); endif; ?>
       </div>
       ```
   

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 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274582)
 * Add another conditional statement to check that counter is not equal to the length
   of posts.
 *  Thread Starter [Stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefan83/)
 * (@stefan83)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274589)
 * Thanks for your reply, Andrew. Could you give an example please?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274591)
 * Does `$counter` hold all of the posts? If so:
 *     ```
       if ($counter % 3 == 0 && $counter !== count($connected) ) {
       ```
   
 *  Thread Starter [Stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefan83/)
 * (@stefan83)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274594)
 * So now I have this
 * But it doesn’t work?
 *     ```
       <?php $counter++;
             if ($counter % 3 == 0) {
                echo '</div><div class="row thirds">';
                }
             if ($counter % 3 == 0 && $counter !== count($counter) ) {
               echo '';
             }
               endwhile;  wp_reset_postdata(); endif; ?>
       ```
   
 * Am I doing something wrong?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274596)
 * Sorry I meant, does $connected hold all of the posts?
 *  Thread Starter [Stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefan83/)
 * (@stefan83)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274600)
 * So how does that look?
 *  [Andrew Nevins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/anevins/)
 * (@anevins)
 * WCLDN 2018 Contributor | Volunteer support
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274602)
 * If you var_dump $connected what do you get?
 *  Thread Starter [Stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefan83/)
 * (@stefan83)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274606)
 * Sorry, I don’t know what you mean. I’m fairly new to php. Can you give a bit 
   more detail please?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 8 replies
 * 2 participants
 * Last reply from: [Stefan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stefan83/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/count-issue/#post-5274606)
 * Status: not resolved

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