Echo post count of CPT with current taxonomy

Question

I have a CPT called 'Athlete' and a Taxonomy called 'School'.

Two sample terms have been added called 'term1' and 'term2'.

When a user views the archive for any of the 2 terms (taxonomy-school.php), I need to be able to echo the current post count of posts from within the Athlete CPT that contain the currently viewed taxonomy term.

So basically something like this:

<?php echo count_posts ('athlete', 'school', $currentTaxTerm); ?>

Is this possible, appreciate any pointers?

Answer 1

In your taxonomy archive template, just add the following:

At the top: global $wp_query;

Then to get the post count for the entire term:

echo $wp_query->found_posts

This will display all posts in the query, which in a taxonomy template will be all posts attached to a term.

WP Query Codex

Answer 2

When you get into the loop on the archive page, you can do this :

if(have_posts()) {
  echo found_posts() . " total posts";
}
while(have_posts()) {

  // display each post

}