update_posts_count( string $deprecated =  )

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Updates a blog’s post count.

Description

WordPress MS stores a blog’s post count as an option so as to avoid extraneous COUNTs when a blog’s details are fetched with get_site() . This function is called when posts are published or unpublished to make sure the count stays current.

Parameters

$deprecatedstringoptional
Not used.

Default:''

Source

function update_posts_count( $deprecated = '' ) {
	global $wpdb;
	update_option( 'post_count', (int) $wpdb->get_var( "SELECT COUNT(ID) FROM {$wpdb->posts} WHERE post_status = 'publish' and post_type = 'post'" ) );
}

Changelog

VersionDescription
MU (3.0.0)Introduced.

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