Get total post from an author

Question

I want to display some data from an author on my loop with this code:

• Avatar

  <?php echo get_avatar( $q->ID, 255 ); ?>
  

• Name.

  <?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $q->ID);?>
  

• Total post.

  <?php echo 'Posts made: ' . count_user_posts( get_the_author_meta($q->ID) ); ?>
  

Full code:

 <?php 
        $number     = $count_post;
        $paged      = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;
        $offset     = ($paged - 1) * $number;
        $users      = get_users();
        $query      = get_users('&offset='.$offset.'&number='.$number);
        $total_users = count($users);
        $total_query = count($query);
        foreach($query as $q) { ?>

 - Avatar
 <?php echo get_avatar( $q->ID, 255 ); ?>
 - Name.
  <?php echo get_the_author_meta('display_name', $q->ID);?>
 - Total post.
    <?php echo 'Posts made: ' . count_user_posts( get_the_author_meta($q->ID) ); ?>

    <?php }
 ?>

The avatar and the author's name is displayed, but the total post failed to display.

Anybody know how to resolve the problem? Really appreciate for any idea.

Regards

Answer 1

the_author_posts() doesn't accept any parameters see the following codex page for more info:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/the_author_posts#Parameters

* UPDATED *

Someone else had posted a VERY similar question. This should solve your problem:

Show author post count in sidebar - Variable

Answer 2

Isn't it just:

<?php echo 'Posts made: ' . count_user_posts( $q->ID ); ?>

Assuming that $q->ID is your author's ID. count_user_posts()