[Resolved] query custom post category

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[kelvinL-2]

Dear Sir/Madam,

I have a Toolset custom post type with many categories, I want to create a snippet code to count the number of each category and put it to View, how can I do that?

[Nigel]

Hi there

Can you clarify what you are trying to output?

You want to display all of the categories and show how many posts each category is assigned to?

Or something else?

[kelvinL-2]

Dear Nigel,

Yes, I want to display all of the categories and show how man posts each category is assigned to, especially those categories belong to the custom post type.

Best regards,

Kelvin.

[Minesh]

For instance lets say, you have post namely "Test post" and you assigned terms movie, chess and music to it. Now, when you display "Test post" on frontend - you want to display terms movie, chess and music with count - is that correct? if yes:

Are you using blocks to build your content template or view?

[kelvinL-2]

Dear Minesh

I need a shortcode and I can put in View, is there any API for this?

[Minesh]

What if you try to use the following shortcode: wpv-post-taxonomy
=> https://toolset.com/documentation/programmer-reference/views/views-shortcodes/#vf-153472

For example:

[wpv-post-taxonomy type="gym-type" format="count"]

Does this helps?

[kelvinL-2]

Dear Minesh,

Shall I have the PHP code having the result to this shortcode, so that I can add some more custom WHERE condition?

[Minesh]

The shortcode [wpv-post-taxonomy] is using WordPress function get_the_terms to query terms:
=> https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_terms/

In your case, I suggest to use the default standard WordPress function: wp_get_object_terms() to get the terms assigned to post:
=>https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/wp_get_object_terms/