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[Resolved] Taxonomy count for a post

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Problem:

The issue here is that the user wanted to count the number of terms that is attached to a post.

Solution:

// Add Shortcode
function count_post_terms( $atts ) {
    // Attributes
    $atts = shortcode_atts(
        array(
            'post_id' => '',
            'taxonomy' => '',
        ),
        $atts
    );
    $terms = wp_get_post_terms( $atts['post_id'], $atts['taxonomy']);
    return count($terms);
}

add_shortcode( 'count_post_terms', 'count_post_terms' );

Add the shortcode above to your functions.php file and you can use this shortcode [count_post_terms] to count the terms attached to a post.

The exact example is.

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[count_post_terms post_id='[wpv-post-id]' taxonomy='category']
In order to use this in our views conditional shortcode you need to add it to our views 3rd party shortcode arguments in Toolset->Settings->Frontend Content.

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Last updated by Tim Elliott 6 years, 4 months ago.

Assisted by: Shane.

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#953561

Tell us what you are trying to do?
I have a post type "Products" which has a taxonomy "Brochures". Some products have a single brochure, some have more than one, some have none.

I need to format the content template depending on how many brochures there are.
i.e.
[wpv-conditional if="( [number_of_brochures] eq 0 )"]Do Something[/wpv-conditional]
[wpv-conditional if="( [number_of_brochures] eq 1 )"]Do Something else[/wpv-conditional]
[wpv-conditional if="( [number_of_brochures] eq 2 )"]Do Something different[/wpv-conditional]

Is there a shortcode I can use to get a count of the brochures for a particular product?

Is there any documentation that you are following?
I've looked through the shortcode documentation but there doesn't seem to be one for this.
[wpv-taxonomy-post-count] does it in reverse - counts post for a taxonomy but doesn't count taxonomies for a post.
[wpv-post-taxonomy type="product-brochure" show="count"] also counts how many posts with that taxonomy, not the number of taxonomies attached to current post.

Is there a similar example that we can see?

What is the link to your site?
hidden link but it's in development at the moment. I can provide access if needed.

Hopefully an easy one...

Thanks
Tim

#953710

Shane
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Hi Tim,

Thank you for contacting our support forum.

// Add Shortcode
function count_post_terms( $atts ) {
	// Attributes
	$atts = shortcode_atts(
		array(
			'post_id' => '',
			'taxonomy' => '',
		),
		$atts
	);
	$terms = wp_get_post_terms( $atts['post_id'], $atts['taxonomy']);
	return count($terms);
}
add_shortcode( 'count_post_terms', 'count_post_terms' );

Add the shortcode above to your functions.php file and you can use this shortcode [count_post_terms] to count the terms attached to a post.

The exact example is.

[count_post_terms post_id='[wpv-post-id]' taxonomy='category']

In order to use this in our views conditional shortcode you need to add it to our views 3rd party shrotcode arguments in Toolset->Settings->Frontend Content.

Thanks,
Shane

#954418

Thanks Shane. Perfect.