How to display number of search results in WordPress (Genesis)

Question

I'm trying to display the number of posts found by a search.

I found this code $wp_query->found_posts but can't seem to make it work, any suggestions?

<?php

add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_search_title' );

function genesis_do_search_title() {

    $title = sprintf( '<div class="archive-description"><h1 class="archive-title">%s %s %s</h1></div>',  $wp_query->found_posts, apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_text', __( 'results for:', 'genesis' ) ), get_search_query() );

    echo apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_output', $title ) . "\n";

}

genesis();

Documentation:

https://codex.wordpress.org/Creating_a_Search_Page#Display_Total_Results

http://my.studiopress.com/documentation/snippets/

What is in the `found_posts`? If this is a built-in function there should be documentation on it somewhere — Mike, Mar 03 '17 at 14:51
Okay, that looks good. Have you checked to make sure that `$wp_query->found_posts` has a value? — Mike, Mar 03 '17 at 15:12
Got it working after reviewing the documentation, needed: global $wp_query; — SilverLink, Mar 03 '17 at 15:16
That's great. Please post how you got it to work in an answer below so that others can learn from what you were able to do. — Mike, Mar 03 '17 at 15:18

score 7 · Accepted Answer · answered Mar 09 '17 at 14:24

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global $wp_query; needs to be present. The syntaxe used shoud be:

global $wp_query;
$total_results = $wp_query->found_posts;

answered Mar 09 '17 at 14:24

score 0 · Answer 2 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 14:33

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I cannot really find the documentation for genesis hooks so this might not work, but it might be that your action 'genesis_before_loop' is executed before the loop variables are set. Try using 'loop_start' instead.

<?php

add_action( 'loop_start', 'genesis_do_search_title' );

function genesis_do_search_title() {

    $title = sprintf( '<div class="archive-description"><h1 class="archive-title">%s %s %s</h1></div>',  $wp_query->found_posts, apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_text', __( 'results for:', 'genesis' ) ), get_search_query() );

    echo apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_output', $title ) . "\n";

}

genesis();

Let me know if this works!

answered Mar 03 '17 at 14:33

L L

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Thank you very much for taking the time to leave a reply. Unfortunately that doesn't seem to be the solution. Still displays as " results for: games" instead of "8 results for: games". The problem seems to be way it is printed, but tried echo and variables with the same results. – SilverLink Mar 03 '17 at 14:49
Do you maybe know where I can find the documentation for the genesis framework? – L L Mar 03 '17 at 14:50

score 0 · Answer 3 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 14:36

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Sorry didn't understand code but if you want to count search result through wp_query, so you can use a counter within the loop and display it outside the loop.

Hope it will help you :)

answered Mar 03 '17 at 14:36

Suraj Menariya

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score 0 · Answer 4 · answered Mar 03 '17 at 15:25

Got it working after further reviewing the documentation and adding:

global $wp_query;

So the code is:

<?php

add_action( 'genesis_before_loop', 'genesis_do_search_title' );

function genesis_do_search_title() {

    global $wp_query;

    $title = sprintf( '<div class="archive-description"><h1 class="archive-title">%s %s %s</h1></div>',  $wp_query->found_posts, apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_text', __( 'results for:', 'genesis' ) ), get_search_query() );

    echo apply_filters( 'genesis_search_title_output', $title ) . "\n";

}

genesis();

Thank you everyone!

How to display number of search results in WordPress (Genesis)

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