How can I show the number of results?

Anonymous

#2255

Can I show the number of results ? How?

thanx in advance.

Ross Moderator

#2258

Hey Luca

Try this in your template:

<?php
global $wp_query;
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;
?>

(Taken from: http://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page)

Let me know if that works!

Anonymous

#2274

Yeah, works!

thanx a lot.

Ross Moderator

#2282

🙂

Anonymous

#2727

Hi Ross this does not seem to have worked for me. I am using Thematic as my theme and added a hook to put this above the content

<div class="results">		<?php
global $wp_query;
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;
?></div>

Any thoughts how I can implement it?
Thanks in advance

Anonymous

#2728

function search_abovecontent() {
?>
<div class="results">		<?php
global $wp_query;
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;
?></div>
<?php }
add_action('thematic_abovecontent','search_abovecontent',0);

Ross Moderator

#2788

Hey Mark

It seems that maybe there is some other custom query on your page which makes this count incorrect – for example if your theme runs its own query_posts or something similar on the page then the found_posts value may be reflecting this.

You could try resetting the main query before you check found_posts however this may break something else in your page:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_reset_query

Something like:

<?php
wp_reset_query();
global $wp_query;
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;
?>

Basically it seems like your theme is overriding the default setting, or not resetting the main query once it has finished running its custom functions?

Thanks

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