Building the category.php I'm curious to know if there is a better way to get the count of posts without wp_query
? In the past I've called:
single_cat_title()
to render the categorycategory_description()
to render the category description
and to build a separator after each post but not the last on the page or last in get_option('posts_per_page')
I've used:
$category = get_queried_object();
$category_total = $category->count;
From research I did see How to get Total Post In a Selected category which was authored in 2011. wp_count_posts()
counts all posts in a blog which I dont think would be good on performance.
$category = get_category($id);
$count = $category->category_count;
From Count how many posts in category I think requires wp_query
? Is there a better way to get the count of posts in a category for category.php?