display something depending on number of posts wordpress

Question

Need help with writing conditional for my wordpress site (cant find similar thread). Dont know if it can be done with wordpress conditional tags.

What i want to accomplish:

If currently logged user published 0 posts show something (for example link number one) else if user published more than 0 posts show something else (link number two).

I managed to write myself simple if statements for displaying menus depending on user role but i cannot find solution for this problem.

Answer 1

WordPress has a count_user_posts() function:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/count_user_posts

Answer 2

Connect to the database using the mysqli_connect PHP function, then taking into account the schema of wordpress databases we have to make the other steps as follows.

The get_current_user_id() wordpress function returns the id of the user who is currently logged in. Then you can use this value like this:

$query = "select count(*) from wp_posts where post_author = ".get_current_user_id();

and finally, you have to run the query as described in the PHP manual.

Answer 3

It was really quite simple (thank you jonahs).

<?php

$user_ID = get_current_user_id();
$user_post_count = count_user_posts( $user_ID );

if ( $user_post_count == 0 ) {
echo 'message one';
} else {
echo 'message two';
}
?>