How to display the number of articles published per user

Question

How to display the number of articles published per user excluding users who do not publish articles. My message type is recipe. I would like to receive a code to get there in wp-query thank you very much for your help

I give you a piece of code. Thanks to this code I am able to display the total number of recipes, but I would have liked to have this: User A posted 14 cooking recipes, User B posted 2 cooking recipes ect.. user member1 should have 2 recipes

<?php
// 1. We define the arguments to define what we want to recover 
$args = array ( 'post_type' => 'recipe', 'posts_per_page' => '16', );

// 2. We run the WP Query 
// The Query 
$the_query = new WP_Query ($args);

// 3. we display the number of messages and the authors!
 // The Loop 
if ($the_query-> have_posts ()) {
 echo count_user_posts (2, $args); 
echo 'recipes for'; 
echo get_the_author (2, $args); 
echo '<br>'; 
echo count_user_posts (1, $args); 
echo 'recipes for';
 echo get_the_author (1, $args);

// 3. We launch the loop to display the articles and the authors! 
// The Loop 
echo '<ul>'; 
while ($the_query-> have_posts ()) ​{ 
$the_query-> the_post (); 
echo '<li>'. get_the_title (). '<li>'; 
echo '<li>'. get_the_author (). '<li>';
​}
​echo '<ul>';
​}
​else { 
// no posts found }
/ * Restore original Post Data * / 
wp_reset_postdata ();
​?>

        

    

Answer 1

If you have access to user IDs, you can use the count_user_posts() function.

You would get the number of posts by a user like this:

//Assume the variable $thisUser is equal to a valid user ID
$ThisUserCount = count_user_posts($thisUser, 'recipe');

EDIT: Where you're calling the count_user_posts() function, you're passing it the array $args instead of the post type, 'recipe'.

<?php
// 1. We define the arguments to define what we want to recover
$args = array (
    'post_type' => 'recipe',
    'posts_per_page' => '16',
);

// 2. We run the WP Query
// The Query
$the_query = new WP_Query ($args);

// 3. we display the number of messages and the authors!
// The Loop
if ($the_query-> have_posts()) {
    //Set arguments to grab all authors with published recipes, and order them by user ID
    $authorArgs = array(
        'orderby' => 'ID',
        'has_published_posts' => array('recipe'),
    );

    //Create an array of all authors with recipes published
    $recipeAuthors = get_users($authorArgs);

    //Loop through each recipe author
    foreach($recipeAuthors as $user){
        //Output user post count for recipes
        echo count_user_posts($user->ID, 'recipe');
        echo ' recipes for ';

        //Output user's display name
        echo $user->display_name;
        echo '<br />';
    }

    // 3. We launch the loop to display the articles and the authors!
    // The Loop
    echo '<ul>';
    while ($the_query-> have_posts()) {
        $the_query-> the_post();
        echo '<li>'. get_the_title(). '</li>';
        echo '<li>'. get_the_author(). '</li>';
    }
    echo '</ul>';
} else {
    // no posts found
}
wp_reset_postdata ();​?>

Also, your get_the_author(2,$args) function calls are not correct. get_the_author() does not accept any parameters anymore, and it only returns the Display Name of the author of the current post in the Loop.

Answer 2

If you're just looking to display authors who have posted at least one article in your custom post type you can ignore the above code and just do this:

// Array of WP_User objects.
$authors = get_users();

// Loop thru the array and get the post count for each user
foreach ( $authors as $author ) {
    $posts = count_user_posts($author->ID, 'movies');

    // Only return users who have at least one post 
    if ($posts > 0):
        echo '<p><span>' . esc_html( $author->display_name ) . ': ' . $posts . '</span>';
    endif; 
}

// Only Necessary if you're running another loop or query on the page
wp_reset_postdata ();​

Good luck!