Counts how many terms are in taxonomy.
Description
Default $args is ‘hide_empty’ which can be ‘hide_empty=true’ or array(‘hide_empty’ => true).
Parameters
$argsarray|stringoptional- Array or string of arguments. See WP_Term_Query::__construct() for information on accepted arguments.
Default:
array() $deprecatedarray|stringoptional- Argument array, when using the legacy function parameter format.
If present, this parameter will be interpreted as$args, and the first function parameter will be parsed as a taxonomy or array of taxonomies.
Default:
''
Source
function wp_count_terms( $args = array(), $deprecated = '' ) {
$use_legacy_args = false;
// Check whether function is used with legacy signature: `$taxonomy` and `$args`.
if ( $args
&& ( is_string( $args ) && taxonomy_exists( $args )
|| is_array( $args ) && wp_is_numeric_array( $args ) )
) {
$use_legacy_args = true;
}
$defaults = array( 'hide_empty' => false );
if ( $use_legacy_args ) {
$defaults['taxonomy'] = $args;
$args = $deprecated;
}
$args = wp_parse_args( $args, $defaults );
// Backward compatibility.
if ( isset( $args['ignore_empty'] ) ) {
$args['hide_empty'] = $args['ignore_empty'];
unset( $args['ignore_empty'] );
}
$args['fields'] = 'count';
return get_terms( $args );
}
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