Display the number of published posts for each custom taxonomy term?

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The question:

I do have a custom taxonomy called “countries”. How do I get each term (country) with the number of its published posts in brackets, like the following:

  • Uruguay (3)
  • Chile (5)
  • Thailand (2)
  • etc.

With following code the number of all terms in the “countries” taxonomy is displayed:

$countries_count = wp_count_terms( 'countries' );
echo $countries_count;

But I just know that this is just a starting point of my problem. Any suggestions?

The Solutions:

Below are the methods you can try. The first solution is probably the best. Try others if the first one doesn’t work. Senior developers aren’t just copying/pasting – they read the methods carefully & apply them wisely to each case.

Method 1

You can use get_terms to get the list of all terms associated with a taxonomy. Once you have all the separate terms, you can use $term->name to display the name of the term and $term->count to retrieve the amount of posts inside that specific term.

Here is a slightly modified version of the code found in the codex. You can futher modify the output as you need

<?php  
$terms = get_terms('countries');

 if ( !empty( $terms ) && !is_wp_error( $terms ) ){
     echo '<ul>';
     foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
       echo '<li>' . $term->name . '&nbsp;(' . $term->count . ')' . '</li>';
     }
     echo '</ul>';
 } 
?>

EDIT

Thanks to @Traveler, here is another version of my code if you need the links to be clickable. 

<?php 

  $terms = get_terms('countries'); 
  if ( !empty( $terms ) && !is_wp_error( $terms ) ){ 
  echo '<ul>'; 

  foreach ( $terms as $term ) { 
     $term = sanitize_term( $term, 'countries' ); 
     $term_link = get_term_link( $term, 'countries' ); 

      echo '<li><a href="' . esc_url( $term_link ) . '" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener">' . $term->name . '&nbsp;(' . $term->count . ')' . '</a></li>'; 
  } 
  echo '</ul>';
  }

?>

Method 2

You can try it with WP Query. I haven’t tested it yet, so please let me know if it works.

$query = new WP_Query( array( 'taxonomy' => 'term', 'posts_per_page' => -1 ) );
$count = $query->post_count;

Method 3

I can’t test this right now but try getting all the terms for “countries” and then loop through them and get the wp_count_terms for each of them.

    $terms = get_terms("countries"); 
    if ( !empty( $terms ) && !is_wp_error( $terms ) ){
     echo "<ul>"; 
     foreach ( $terms as $term ) { 
     $args = array( 'slug' => $term->slug, ); 
     echo "<li>" . $term->name . "(" . wp_count_terms('countries', $args) . ")</li>";
    } 
    echo "</ul>"; }


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