Reply To: Count of posts with the same field choice

• dave086

• November 5, 2019 at 9:03 pm

@cardosus – I’m very late to the game here, but as this still comes up in Google – here’s a link to the full function in a StackOverflow answer, and also the function below (in case the SO answer also disappears):

SO Link: https://stackoverflow.com/questions/17741546/count-posts-by-values-from-advanced-custom-field-wordpress

function get_post_count_by_meta( $meta_key, $meta_value, $post_type) {

    $args = array(
        'post_type' => $post_type,
        'numberposts'   => -1,          
        'post_status'   => 'publish',
    );

    if ( $meta_key && $meta_value ) {
        if ( is_array($meta_value) ) {
            $args['meta_query'][] = array(
                'key' => $meta_key,
                'value' => $meta_value, 
                'compare' => 'LIKE'
            );
        } else {
            $args['meta_query'][] = array('key' => $meta_key, 'value' => $meta_value);
        }   
    }

    $posts = get_posts($args);
    $count = count($posts);
    return $count; 

}
$post_count = get_post_count_by_meta('test_field', 'Value 1', 'any');
echo $post_count;