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update_posts_count › WordPress Function

Since
Deprecatedn/a
› update_posts_count ( $deprecated = '' )
Parameters:
  • (string) $deprecated Not used.
    Required: No
    Default: (empty)
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Change Log:
  • MU

Updates a blog's post count.

WordPress MS stores a blog's post count as an option so as to avoid extraneous COUNTs when a blog's details are fetched with get_site(). This function is called when posts are published or unpublished to make sure the count stays current.


Related Functions: _update_post_term_count, _update_posts_count_on_delete, update_post_meta, update_post_cache, wp_update_term_count

Source 

function update_posts_count( $deprecated = '' ) {
	global $wpdb;
	update_option( 'post_count', (int) $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM {$wpdb->posts} WHERE post_status = 'publish' and post_type = 'post'" ), true );
}