[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #14073: Custom Taxonomies - Post Count wrong

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#14073: Custom Taxonomies - Post Count wrong
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 Reporter:  defade        |       Owner:                             
     Type:  defect (bug)  |      Status:  new                        
 Priority:  normal        |   Milestone:  Unassigned                 
Component:  Taxonomy      |     Version:  3.0                        
 Severity:  normal        |    Keywords:  custom taxonomy, post count
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 I've just set up some custom taxonomies on our blog.

 Basically they are just some basic custom tag-clouds for a few different
 subjects

 But i've come across what appears to be a weird bug

 After creating my custom taxonomies, i went through my articles (posts)
 using the bulk edit function to 'tag' all the articles in the new custom
 tag-subjects

 By using the bulk-edit feature, this saved me loads of time, but in doing
 so meant i could only add one tag at a time - however, cetain articles
 needed to be tagged with multiple tags, so they would show up in the
 repeated use of bulk edit many times

 Here's where it got weird....

 Every time i added a new tag to a post and hit the 'update' button, it
 would increase the post count for that article by +1

 I know that sounds a bit crazy, as an article does not have a post count,
 so the best way to explain it is with an example

 1) Go to our sites archive page [http://f1stockcars.com/about/archives/]

 2) Look over to the right for our custom "Drivers" tag-cloud

 3) Near the top is is a driver called "Colin Goodswen"

 4) Hover your mouse on this driver and it says "12 Topics"

 5) Click the name though, and you'll find he has just ONE topic

 The reason for this is simply because i had to add multiple "driver" tags
 to that particular article, and each time i hit the "Update Post" button
 it (as i said before) increased the post count for that article by +1

 And it's not just a one-off... virtually EVERY single driver tag has the
 incorrect post count assigned to their name

 I decided to see if this was an issue unique to the 'Bulk Editor' by going
 into the standard single (full) Post Editor. Without editing a single
 thing within the post i simple hit the 'Update' Post button. I went back
 to my archive to check the post count for tags associated with that post,
 and they had all increased by +1

 I think that's about all the information i can provide on how to recreate
 the bug.

 This now means there is not just the fact it's giving wrong information
 about post counts to our readers, it also means our tag-cloud's appearance
 is completely wrong, and tags with only one article are being emphasized
 over other tags with many articles

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