Count posts with specific term_meta

Question

I have a custom post type that have many taxonomies. In the front end, a user can assign a 'category' (term_meta) value to the taxonomy - hardware or software.

I wanted to be able to count how many term_meta posts there were.

 $base_array        = array(
    'posts_per_page'    => -1,
    'fields'            => 'ids',
    'post_type'         => 'cpt',
    'post_status'       => array('publish'),
    'date_query'        => array(
            'before'    => 'next Saturday',
            'after'     => 'last Monday'
    )
);

$base = get_posts($base_array);

echo count($base);

This will give me the total count of posts in the week. But I want to count the posts that have the taxonomy with the term_meta 'hardware' or 'software'.

Is that possible?

Answer 1

$base_array        = array(
    'posts_per_page'    => -1,
    'fields'            => 'ids',
    'post_type'         => 'cpt',
    'post_status'       => array('publish'),
    'date_query'        => array(
            'before'    => 'next Saturday',
            'after'     => 'last Monday'
    ),
    'tax_query'        => array(
            'taxonomy'  => 'pas_here_taxonomy'
            'field'    => 'slug',
            'terms'    => array( 'hardware', 'software'),
'operator'      => 'IN'
    )
);

$base = get_posts($base_array);

echo count($base);

Answer 2

So, looking at some other code I have, I feel this would be the right way to go about it. I haven't tested it, but I feel it would work in the way I needed it too (no longer need to count the types).

$base_array = array(
    'posts_per_page'    => -1,
    'fields'            => 'ids',
    'post_type'         => 'cpt',
    'post_status'       => array('publish'),
    'date_query'        => array(
        'before'    => 'next Saturday',
        'after'     => 'last Monday'
    )
);

$base = get_posts($base_array);


foreach( $base as $post_id ) {
    $term_meta = get_term_meta( post_id, 'tax_term_type', true );

    $term_hardware += ($term_meta == 'term_meta_hardware') ? 1 : 0;
    $term_software += ($term_meta == 'term_meta_software') ? 1 : 0;
}

echo count( $term_hardware );
echo count( $term_software );