Misleading post count on taxonomy screen

[bunnykins]

Register a post type that supports categories.

Wether you go to:

wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

or to:

wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category&post_type=example

the Posts column displays the same counts.

This leaves users the false impression that category archives should display posts with any post type.

[bunnykins]

I discovered a work around by mistake. The work around is to make the entry as both a normal post type and then the newly created post type and boom it fixes it. Well sort of. Creating an entry twice to get categories and tags to work for post types seems silly.

[scribu]

The problem is that the counts you see on the categories page is

[scribu]

The problem is that the post count is global accross all post types. It should be restricted to the current post type.

[scribu]

Related: #14073

[scribu]

Related: #14084

[bunnykins]

I might be reading your replies wrong but the replies do not seem address the problem I am having and that is using the categories and tags with the post types and then being able to click on those categories and seeing those entries. The count that is shows is a minor issues compared to the true issue I am talking about.

[nacin]

bunnykins: Are you referring to #14061?

[bunnykins]

I am not sure as I am having a bit of an issue reading what is being said there.

In looking at my issue the count is actually correct just when you click on the category it does not display the entries that are in that category for that post type.

[nacin]

Where is this inaccurate count? Back end? On your theme?

Sorry, but your steps to reproduce are a bit confusing.

[scribu]

The issue I was refering to is this:

Register a post type that supports categories.

Wether you go to:

wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

or to:

wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category&post_type=example

the Posts column displays the same counts.

[bunnykins]

Ok create a custom post type that uses the built in categories and tags.
Then create entries in the custom post type, set them to use one of the categories you already have created.
Say you have 3 entries created in that post type and in the same category. So you now have 3 entries in that category as well as 3 entries in the new post type.

Now go to your main page and if you have the category's widget set up it should show that category with 3 entries.

Now here is where the issue is. When you click on that category it shows no entries as if you never created any entries for that category or searched for some thing that does not exist on the site.

[bunnykins]

Replying to scribu:
> The issue I was refering to is this:

Register a post type that supports categories.

Wether you go to:

wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category

or to:

wp-admin/edit-tags.php?taxonomy=category&post_type=example

the Posts column displays the same counts.

Oh I was not aware that was a bug, it seemed normal to me for it to act that way, infact I would prefer it to work that way as it is showing the correct info regardless of which category's screen you are at.

My issue is related to the none admin side of things as mentioned above and I am using the new skin.

[scribu]

Ok, now I finally got what you're saying.

That is the expected behaviour: category archives only display regular posts.

I'm going to close this ticket and post a solution in the original support topic.

[scribu]

Actually, the reason you expected it to show all posts is precisely because of those post counts.

So, it's still an issue, except it should be fixed in a different way.

[scribu]

Solution for original problem: ​http://wordpress.org/support/topic/415091?replies=5#post-1570387

[bunnykins]

So is this code going to be in a future release?

[bunnykins]

I found an issue with that fix. It breaks the azindex plug in.

[scribu]

Replying to bunnykins:

So is this code going to be in a future release?

Not likely.

I found an issue with that fix. It breaks the azindex plug in.

Let's keep that discussion in the support topic.

[bunnykins]

Ok why is it not likely to get fixed?
Maybe another way of fixing it is to have post types use their own categories and tags. That might fix this bug.

[scribu]

Well yes, using your own taxonomy is the way to go. I thought you had a special requirement to use categories.

[scribu]

See

[michaelh]

Replying to scribu:

Replying to bunnykins:

So is this code going to be in a future release?

Not likely.

A possible fix could be to only include post_type=post in the counts, or if more than one post_type is include in the count don't make the count a link.

[scribu]

Yes, I was refering to the reporter's problem.

[scribu]

Related: #14344

It seems the cached post count column is becoming less and less useful.

[dd32]

I'm closing this as a duplicate of #14084

My reasoning: The count is global, across all post types and all post status's, It is not specific to what is visible on the front end.

As mentioned above, see ​this post for how to make custom post types appear in archive views, there is code elsewhere (google it..) which shows how to specifically add a post type to a archive rather than including all taxonomies.

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