Wordpress standard loop: additional post count with parameters - wordpress

Question

I am altering a template file of the Search & Filter Wordpress Plugin to show additional post counts.
The plugin uses the standard Wordpress loop to query posts by certain parameters. The number of posts can be counted by using found_posts.
Now I want to display a second post count that takes additional parameters into account, eg. post_status. I have to stick to the regular WP loop to keep the query from the Plugin intact.
Something like this in the commented line:
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
echo $query->found_posts 'posts found';
// echo $query->found_posts(array('post_status=>'private') 'private posts found';
while ($query->have_posts()) {
$query->the_post();
the_title();
}
}
The code works fine, except for the commented part which obviously doesn't work.
Is there a way to add another post_count with additional parameters to the standard loop?
Thanks
Georg

Answer 1

You could not add like this echo $query->found_posts(array('post_status=>'private') but before your loop just use below code to count posts by status. in your case you want to count posts by status private so add below code.
$args = array('post_type' => 'your_post_type_name','post_status' => array('publish', 'pending', 'draft', 'future', 'private', 'inherit', 'trash')
);
$query = new WP_Query( $args );
if ( $query->have_posts() ) {
echo $query->found_posts 'posts found';
// echo $query->found_posts(array('post_status=>'private') 'private posts found';
$count_posts = wp_count_posts('post');
$private_posts = $count_posts->private;
echo $private_posts. 'private posts found';
while ($query->have_posts()) {
$query->the_post();
the_title();
}
}
similarly if you want to show count for publish or draft posts you can add below code.
$publish_posts = $count_posts->publish;
$draft_posts = $count_posts->draft;
you could count any other posts by its status is well.