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In my RSS feed, for example in a custom conditional URL:

domain/?m=20130407&feed=rss2&cat=3

I'm getting all my required tags, after editing wp-includes' file feed-rss2.php

With pagination enabled using &paged=# I can get into any pages within it. But when I get into a dead-end, it typically generates a 'not found' page.

Now my pagination is enabled showing 10 posts per page. So when cat=3 has 15 posts only, on first page it's showing 10, on second it's showing 5, and on third page it's showing a 'not-found' page.

So, now I'VE TO COUNT HOW MANY POSTS FOUND under this custom URL.
Please note, I'm not using any WP_Query() thing here and wp_count_posts not working for me.

  • How can I do this?

I've tried get_posts(), but it by default restricting the page to load only 5 posts max. So I passed a custom argument into it locally:

<postCount><?php
$allPosts = array(
    'numberposts' => -1
       );       
$posts = get_posts( $allPosts );
echo $count = count($posts);
?></postCount>

NOT WORKING! It's exhausting the allocated memory size querying all, so it's I think not suitable because it's a time consuming thing, will pose load also.

So, HOW DO THEY DO IT?

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