Opened 14 years ago
Closed 11 years ago
#17027 closed enhancement (duplicate)
Allow WP_Query to return just the count
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| Milestone: | Priority: | normal | |
| Severity: | normal | Version: | |
| Component: | Query | Keywords: | needs-patch |
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Description
Currently, you can't ask just for the total number of posts for a certain query.
You have to execute that query and then retrieve the total using SQL_CALC_FOUND_ROWS.
Maybe a 'fields' => 'count' option would do it.
Example where this is needed in Core: #17019
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I refreshed the patch of #17019