Term Count misleading when on Post Type focused listing

[garrett-eclipse]

Hello,

When you associate a taxonomy to multiple Post Types then under each of those post types is a page for that custom taxonomy which lists the terms with a count that's clickable. The count currently uses the WP_Term $count which accounts for all content across post types. Clicking this number takes you to a list view filtered to the taxonomy and post type which is a subset of the taxonomy term count and as such doesn't match up with the count previously seen.

Thinking on this for some time there's a few options;

1. The count can be switched from using the WP_Term $count to a query that takes into account the current post type view. This way the count will match with the click-through list table.
2. The count can be left as the full term count and instead update the link to click-through to a list table which lists ALL associated content from all post types. This requires a new list table that would accept a new param of post_types that could be 'any' or an array as the existing Term list table requires the post_type and if not set defaults to post.
3. The full count can be provided followed by a sub-count filtered for the currently viewed post type so would present like 'X (Y posts)' where X is the full count and Y is the count specific to the post type and posts would be the currently viewed post types. In this way when you click through Y you get the view filtered to the current post type, and if you click X you get a new list table listing all post types similar to what is proposed in #2.

Obviously #1 would be the easiest solution but #2/3 would provide more useful views and experience.

And to give more understanding where the count comes from is found in column_posts;
​https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/56c162fbc9867f923862f64f1b4570d885f1ff03/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-terms-list-table.php#L538

If the approach to introduce a general list table for 'any' post type occurs then there's also potential to provide the taxonomy edit-tags.php page without a post type focus in a more general location.

Thank you for the consideration, at the very least would love the misleading count number corrected.

To Reproduce;

1. Create a custom Taxonomy and associated with both Posts and Pages.
2. Create a page and associate a new term for the taxonomy.
3. Create a post and associate with the same term from #2.
4. Navigate to Posts > Taxonomy and note the count of 2 beside the term you created.
5. Click the count number and note you see only one item lists as you're in a view filtered to the post type.

Cheers

[garrett-eclipse]

Custom Taxonomy (Key Facts) with Term (Sitemap) showing a count of 2 as there's a page and media item associated to the term.

[garrett-eclipse]

Clickthrough the count you get a list filtered to pages so only one item showing but the count had 2

[desrosj]

Thanks for all of the great thoughts on this, @garrett-eclipse. #38280 is a preexisting ticket that discusses this. There’s a lot of iterations and a working patch there. Closing in favor of that ticket.

[garrett-eclipse]

Thanks @desrosj I ran through #38280 but don't see any update related to the list table count with that be address within by replacing the column count code with the newly proposed wp_get_term_object_count?
​https://github.com/WordPress/WordPress/blob/56c162fbc9867f923862f64f1b4570d885f1ff03/wp-admin/includes/class-wp-terms-list-table.php#L538

If so that's awesome as it would address the misleading count. But I wonder if there'll be a way to get a general/global list with complete count that links to a list table of all mixed post type items? Or is that addition beyond what's proposed there?

Appreciated

[SergeyBiryukov]

Duplicate of #32942.

[garrett-eclipse]

Thanks @SergeyBiryukov overlooked that one.