Count post + add number =

Question

I'm having problems with counting posts of a custom post type called 'projects' and like to add a number to the count. We did some stuff which can't be shown in our portfolio but would like to add only as number.

Basically it goes as follow:

There are 22 published projects (custom posts type called 'projects') + 11 other projects (no posts) = echo 33 projects.

Edit:

I'm using this to get the wordpress counts:

<?php
            $count_posts = wp_count_posts('projects');
            $published_posts = $count_posts->publish;
            ?>

<?php // echo $published_posts  ?>

How do I get this working?

Thanks in advance.

Answer 1

If you want to count posts of some custom post type, you can try out the WordPress function wp_count_posts()

In your case the custom post type is 'projects' so you might try this:

$count_projects = wp_count_posts( 'projects' );
$published_projects = $count_projects->publish;
$total = $published_projects + 11; // include your additional projects

You can read more about this function in the Codex here.