Show weekly posts statistic in WordPress

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I create a table in the footer.

I would like to show some statistics, like total posts, weekly posts, total posts of the specific category.

I just echo total posts with wp_count_posts()->publish;

What can I do for the other one?

2 Answers
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You already have the total post, so in order to get the total post within the last week, it’s better if you do this on your functions.php file:

function get_posts_count_from_last_week($post_type="post") {
    global $wpdb;

    $numposts = $wpdb->get_var(
        $wpdb->prepare(
            "SELECT COUNT(ID) ".
            "FROM {$wpdb->posts} ".
            "WHERE ".
                "post_status="publish" ".
                "AND post_type= %s ".
                "AND post_date> %s",
            $post_type, date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-168 hours'))
        )
    );
    return $numposts;
}

And then use it in the footer.

<?php echo get_posts_count_from_last_week(); ?>

To work with categories we could use WP_Query:

$args = array(
  'cat' => 4,
  'post_type' => 'videos'
);
$the_query = new WP_Query( $args );
echo $the_query->found_posts;

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