I wrote this handy snippet of code for a WordPress theme recently (I say recently, on checking the date of my first post, it was a year ago), I’ve shared it on the WordPress forums if anyone wants it. It works with a paged search page to just display a total number of results, in the format of ‘Showing 1-15 of 759‘.

Someone might find use for it, or perhaps can expand on it. I threw this into my search.php in my theme but alternatively it could be wrapped in a function and included in your functions.php file.

<?php
 /* Search Total Count */
 $allsearch = &new WP_Query("s=$s&showposts=-1");
 $count = $allsearch->post_count;
 wp_reset_query();

 /* Number of posts per page and page number */
 $num_of_posts = 15;
 $pageNumber = (get_query_var('paged')) ? get_query_var('paged') : 1;

 /* Showing the lower post value */
 $n = ($pageNumber-1)*$num_of_posts;
 $n = $n+1;

 /* Showing the higher/highest post value */
 $m = $pageNumber * $num_of_posts;
 if($m > $count){
 // if m is bigger than the count var, it sets the
 // highest value equal to the count, this is for the last page of results
 $m = $count;
 }
?>

To display the results, it’s just a matter of choosing how you want to format it. For my particular example, I did it this way.

<?php
if($count > 0){
echo '
      Showing <strong>'.$n.'</strong>
      -<strong>'.$m.'</strong>
      of <strong>'.$count.'</strong>';
}
else{
     echo '<strong>No Results</strong>';
} ?>

I hope to include more little nuggets of code in the future. I’ve picked up so many from different blogs, and I’ve helped out on the WordPress forums many-a-time writing custom little functions to help people out of binds. So it will hopefully be of some benefit to someone in the future.