Title: wp_count_posts – specific category
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# wp_count_posts – specific category

 *  [deadlyhifi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tomdebruin/)
 * (@tomdebruin)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_count_posts-specific-category/)
 * I have got a full post count using the wp_count_posts method (see below). But
   I want to display post count for a specific category. Does wp_count_posts support
   this yet?
 * [wp_count_posts in Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_count_posts)
 *     ```
       <?php
       $count_posts = wp_count_posts();
       $published_posts = $count_posts->publish;
       echo 'Total published items: '.$published_posts;
       ?>
       ```
   
 * edit: version 2.5.1 used.

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 *  [ivovic](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ivovic/)
 * (@ivovic)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_count_posts-specific-category/#post-782265)
 * What you want is the ‘count’ field in wp_term_taxonomy, which is the number of
   times a particular term (aka category) has been used.
 * See this thread: [http://wordpress.org/support/topic/136905](http://wordpress.org/support/topic/136905)
 * Perhaps it won’t bother you too much that your drafts are also counted, as they
   shouldn’t be drafts forever.
 *  [edebiyat01](https://wordpress.org/support/users/edebiyat01/)
 * (@edebiyat01)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_count_posts-specific-category/#post-782410)
 * Thanks Ivovic.

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 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/wp_count_posts-specific-category/#post-782410)
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