Published posts
Posts are the dated entries of a blog or a news section, sorted by date and grouped in categories and tags. Published posts are the ones that are live, so visitors and search engines can open them.
Why it matters
Section titled “Why it matters”A single post doesn’t get slower because there are more of them: WordPress loads only what that page shows. The count matters for the pages that list posts. Archives, categories, tags, search, “related posts” and feeds sort through all of them, and plugins that do this on every page view work harder as the count grows.
Posts are often the content that grows most over the years, and with them the comments, the revisions and the images in the media library.
What influences it
Section titled “What influences it”WordPress: Publishing and deleting, mostly. Imports can add thousands of posts at once. Drafts, posts waiting for review, private and scheduled posts aren’t published yet, so they don’t count. Content that plugins store as their own post types, such as products or events, isn’t part of the posts count.
In Permo
Section titled “In Permo”The Posts card is in System info, tab Content. It shows the number of published posts, with a line of the last 3 months below it, one count per day, and the change in that time, such as “+12 in 3 months”. If Permo has counted for less than 3 months, the change starts at the first count.
Permo counts once a day and when you select Count content again. The value gives context; Permo doesn’t rate it.
Related
Section titled “Related”Sources
- WordPress: wp_count_posts(), accessed