Anders2

Hi! The problem is solved. All I did was add: $posttags = get_the_tags(); if ($posttags) { foreach($posttags as $tag) { echo ' <strong>('. $tag->count .')</strong>'; } } directly after: $output .= the_tags() .''; I found the solution here (under "More Information"): https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_the_tags/ I got to change from $tag->name to $tag->count Greetings Anders

I use this code in functions.php // recent posts shortcode/ // @ https://digwp.com/2018/08/shortcode-display-recent-posts/ function shapeSpace_recent_posts_shortcode($atts, $content = null) { global $post; extract(shortcode_atts(array( 'cat' => '', 'num' => '5', 'order' => 'DESC', 'orderby' => 'post_date', 'offset' => '', ), $atts)); $args = array( 'cat' => $cat, 'posts_per_page' => $num, 'order' => $order, 'orderby' => $orderby, 'offset' => $offset, ); $output = ''; $posts = get_posts($args); foreach($posts as $post) { setup_postdata($post); $output .= the_tags() .''; } wp_reset_postdata(); return ''. $output .''; } add_shortcode('recent_posts', 'shapeSpace_recent_posts_shortcode'); When I then use this shortcode: [recent_posts num="1" offset="0" cat="39"] then I get the category name with a link to /tag/categoryname/ How do I modify the (bold line of) code so that I also get the total number of posts with this tag in this category, like this: uncategorized (5) Something like this? $output .= the_tags() .' <strong>('. count($a_variable) .')</strong>'; Thanks in advance Anders