Title: meta value count
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# meta value count

 *  [lobos55](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lobos55/)
 * (@lobos55)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-value-count/)
 * Hi,
    I have the following query:
 *     ```
       $journal = get_post_meta($post_id, 'Journal', $single = true);
       $journal_count = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT (*)
       	FROM $wpdb->postmeta WHERE meta_key = 'Journal' AND meta_value = '$journal' " );
       ```
   
 * this returns NULL.
 * I don’t understand why.
 * Anybody help?

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 *  [Mark / t31os](https://wordpress.org/support/users/t31os_/)
 * (@t31os_)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/meta-value-count/#post-1186427)
 * Change this..
 *     ```
       $single = true
       ```
   
 * to..
 *     ```
       true
       ```
   
 * Does that help?

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