displaying a search counter

Anonymous

#80549

HI,

I am trying to display a search counter but am coming across a glitch.

<h3 class="pagetitle">Search for <?php /* Search Count */ $allsearch = &new WP_Query("s=$s&showposts=-1"); $key = wp_specialchars($s, 1); $count = $allsearch->post_count; _e(''); _e('<span class="search-terms">'); echo $key; _e('</span>'); _e(' &mdash; '); echo $count . ' '; _e('resources'); wp_reset_query(); ?></h3>

is the code I am using at the top of the results page.

This works but then seems to conflict with the search and filter results. So if I search for ‘easter’ in ‘Category A’ it comes back with:

“Search for easter — 13 resources”

then, if I change this search to ‘Category B’, it says the same again:

“Search for easter — 13 resources”

… though there are no ‘easter’ posts in ‘Category B’ and no results are shown.

So the search and filter part is working fine (showing no results) but the ‘search count’ I have added seems to want to display all of them.

I guess what I am really trying to say is what is the correct method to get a search count on my results page!

: )

Thanks!

Trevor

#80552

This is something I tried to do a week ago on another site, but there does not seem to be a way to get the numbers. It is something we will most likely look at for the next major version.

Anonymous

#80564

Hi Trevor, thanks for getting back to me.

I think displaying the true number of results is a definate addition that needs to be made to the plugin, its a basic and fundamental part of search results. Please can you let me know when something is sorted for this? Or let me know how I can find out?

I notice there is a working post counter on the demo here:

http://demo.designsandcode.com/sfpro-woo-mystile/shop/

how was that acheieved?

Trevor

#80566

Part of it uses this, I think:

<?php echo $query->found_posts; ?>

Anonymous

#80575

that didnt work on mine at all.

Trevor

#80578

If you are using your theme to make the loop, you would need to know what the theme names the query.

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