Include Drafts or Future posts with count_user_posts?

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I’m use the code below to get the number of posts by a user and it works fine but it only includes published posts. How can I modify this code or use different code to have it include “future” post_status’s or “drafts”, for example.

<?php
$post_count = count_user_posts($curauth->ID);
echo '<p>User post count is ' . $post_count;
?>

2 Answers
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This will do what you want:

$args = array(
    'author'      => $curauth->ID,
    'post_status' => array(
        'publish',
        'pending',
        'draft',
        'future'
    )
);
$posts = new WP_Query();

$post_count = $posts->found_posts;

It will include drafts, pending posts, published posts, and future posts. There are more you can set, such as trashed posts, and private posts, but that didn’t seem to follow the intent of the question. This method will include custom post types as well as the builtin post types, so additional filtering may be in order.

Docs: WP_Query

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