how to print total number of posts filtered by category?

Question

I want to print total number of posts filtered by its category. for example if there are 3 posts in category "abc" and 5 posts in category "xyz". when i am in any post of category "abc" then it should display 3 and if i am in any post of category "xyz" then it should print 5. Thanks

with this piece of code i am struggling to acheive these functionality

foreach((get_the_terms($post->ID, 'project_category')) as $term) { 
echo $term->term_id. ''; 
}

above code will result the term id of current category. suppose the result is 7 then we put it in this code

$term = get_term( '7', 'category' ); 
$count = $term->count;
echo $count;

this will result total number of posts in current category . Now instead of hard coding '7' how can we achieve the result dynamically ?

Answer 1

I think this will do

foreach((get_the_terms($post->ID, 'project_category')) as $term) { 
   echo $term->term_id, " -> ", $term->count,  '<br>';
   // if post assigned to more than once category you will have multiple lines 
}

Basically get_the_terms call already returns term object, so you can access all properties, including count