Tags/Categories Count Incorrect

[mikedunn]

The tags and categories management pages show inaccurate count when posts are marked private.

[swissspidy]

That's by design. The _update_post_term_count function only counts published posts.

[mikedunn]

If that's by design, then I guess what I'm suggesting is that the design is bad. :) What the interface is indicating now is that there are *no* posts assigned to these "0" count tags/categories, which usually isn't the case. What prompted this is that I deleted a bunch of tags that appeared at first glance to be orphaned, but of course they weren't.

A lazy workaround might be include a line that indicates that only published posts are included, but a better solution in my opinion would be to include all posts regardless of status. Private posts are, in fact, still posts.

[swissspidy]

Counting private posts could lead to the opposite situation where a user sees a higher count than the amount of posts he's really able to access. Besides that, what about future posts – shouldn't they be counted as well then?

Would be great getting feedback from some other devs about this as the query itself is quite old.

[sabernhardt]

Since 5.7, the update_post_term_count_statuses filter has allowed modifying the list of statuses. See #38843.