Title: Return total posts as numeric count
Last modified: December 7, 2019

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# Return total posts as numeric count

 *  [iantresman](https://wordpress.org/support/users/iantresman/)
 * (@iantresman)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/return-total-posts-as-numeric-count/)
 * Is there a CCS shortcode that will return a count of the total number of posts,
   rather than any fields or actual posts?

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 *  [Peter Berger](https://wordpress.org/support/users/peterpolow/)
 * (@peterpolow)
 * [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/return-total-posts-as-numeric-count/#post-12216309)
 * Try `[loop-count]`.
 * Total number of posts: `[loop-count type=post]`

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 * Last activity: [6 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/return-total-posts-as-numeric-count/#post-12216309)
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