Display the progress of post achievement with percentage against target in wordpress dashboard

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I have a cpt called "movie", and I set a target for writers to make 50,000 posts in 6 months. The question is... can I make a percentage of the results of the number of recent posts against the target, and how to display it through a shortcode?

For example: "total posts are 50% of target."

Is there any way to display that with a shortcode? Please help.

I have a cpt called "movie", and I set a target for writers to make 50,000 posts in 6 months. The question is... can I make a percentage of the results of the number of recent posts against the target, and how to display it through a shortcode?

For example: "total posts are 50% of target."

Is there any way to display that with a shortcode? Please help.

• custom-post-types
• posts
• shortcode

Share Improve this question asked Dec 22, 2023 at 18:19 Tuagapat ManamTuagapat Manam 4155 bronze badges 5

• you wouldn't use a shortcode to display that inside WP Admin itself, it's far easier and simpler to call the function that displays the percentage directly instead of creating a shortcode that calls it, then constructing a shortcode string dynamically and asking WP to render it. The percentage part is easy as that's just math, it's counting the number of movie posts created in the last 6 months when there are going to be tens of thousands of posts that will be problematic – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Dec 22, 2023 at 19:13
• any solutions? plugins? – Tuagapat Manam Commented Dec 22, 2023 at 19:45
• Does this answer your question? Output number of Wordpress posts remaining until a post milestone is reached – birgire Commented Dec 22, 2023 at 20:56
• the output that I expect is a percentage, is it possible? – Tuagapat Manam Commented Dec 24, 2023 at 14:53
• yes, but that would be basic arithmetic that has nothing to do with WordPress e.g. something like this $percentage = ( $found_posts / $target_posts ) * 100; – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Dec 28, 2023 at 12:48

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Here are my thoughts, which include both a shortcode and a direct function to display the post progress in the WordPress dashboard/admin area:

1. Creating a Custom Shortcode:

   You can create a custom shortcode to display the post progress on your WordPress site using the following code:

   function post_progress_shortcode() {
       $post_type = 'movie';
       $target_count = 50000; // Set your target post count here
   
       $args = array(
           'post_type' => $post_type,
           'post_status' => 'publish',
       );
   
       $query = new WP_Query($args);
       $post_count = $query->found_posts;
   
       if ($post_count > 0) {
           $percentage = ($post_count / $target_count) * 100;
           $percentage = round($percentage, 2); // Round to 2 decimal places
           return "Total posts are {$percentage}% of the target.";
       } else {
           return "No posts found.";
       }
   }
   add_shortcode('post_progress', 'post_progress_shortcode');
   

   Usage: You can use the [post_progress] shortcode anywhere in your content to display the progress. This will allow you to display these statistics on the frontend of your website wherever you like.

2. Function for Dashboard/Admin Area:

   If you want to display the post progress directly in the WordPress dashboard/admin area, you can add the following code to your theme's functions.php file or a custom plugin file:

   function display_post_progress() {
       $post_type = 'movie';
       $target_count = 50000; // Set your target post count here
   
       $args = array(
           'post_type' => $post_type,
           'post_status' => 'publish',
       );
   
       $query = new WP_Query($args);
       $post_count = $query->found_posts;
   
       if ($post_count > 0) {
           $percentage = ($post_count / $target_count) * 100;
           $percentage = round($percentage, 2); // Round to 2 decimal places
           echo "<p>Total posts are {$percentage}% of the target.</p>";
       } else {
           echo "<p>No posts found.</p>";
       }
   }
   
   // Hook the function to display in the dashboard
   function add_post_progress_dashboard_widget() {
       wp_add_dashboard_widget(
           'post_progress_widget',
           'Post Progress',
           'display_post_progress'
       );
   }
   add_action('wp_dashboard_setup', 'add_post_progress_dashboard_widget');
   

   This will add a widget titled "Post Progress" to the WordPress dashboard displaying the progress.

Now you have two methods to display post progress, one as a shortcode for content and the other as a dashboard widget for the admin area. You can use either method depending on your preference.

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