Problem: I would like to show a View of posts and calculate the total number of posts with each custom field value, like the results of a survey.
Solution: There's nothing built-in to Views that will calculate the total number of posts with a specific custom field value on-the-fly, so the display you described must be built out piece by piece using Views and Views shortcodes. You could use multiple filtered Views to achieve something similar. For example:
- View of submissions filtered by custom field "Question 1", answer "Yes"
- Use the wpv-found-count shortcode to output the number of submissions.
- View of submissions filtered by custom field "Question 1", answer "No"
- Use the wpv-found-count shortcode to output the number of submissions.
- View of submissions filtered by custom field "Question 1", answer "I don't know"
- Use the wpv-found-count shortcode to output the number of submissions.
- A second View of submissions filtered by custom field "Question 1", answer "No"
- In the loop output editor, display the "reason" free-response field
Problem:
Are there performance reasons to choose taxonomy checkboxes vs a checkboxes custom field?
Solution:
In general taxonomies are more performant than custom fields when it comes to querying posts. Taxonomies are stored in custom tables optimised for the purpose, while custom fields are stored in the general purpose wp_postmeta table. On smaller sites the difference would be too small to notice, on larger sites with more traffic the difference might be noticeable.
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