Finding maximum number of posts

Anonymous

#78527

Hello,
Could you please advise on how I can retrieve maximum number of posts in my PHP Results script? I want be able to display a message along the lines of “Showing x of y items”. I can use “found_posts; ?>” to show x. How do I find y?

Thank You (still learning WP so apologies if this is a dumb question)

Trevor

#78756

It MIGHT be possible using PHP, something like this:

<?php global $wp_query; ?>
<div>Found <?php  echo $wp_query->found_posts; ?> Posts</div>

But the query name might be the issue, because it depends on your theme. I stumbled on this by accident because I was trying to find how many posts there were after filtering, but this code gave me the total number before filtering.

For my own needs I have spent over a week on this without any joy, so I am fairly sure I can’t offer much more help.

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