How to get the number of posts in a specific category in WordPress using wp_query?

Question

SQL

How to get the number of posts in a specific category in WordPress using wp_query? And also how to make a query in WP_Query and use limit in it.

Answer 1

Hey!
Here is a similar one: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/display-the-po...

Answer 2

And also how to make a query in WP_Query and use limit in it.

Something like this.

new WP_Query( array(
   'category_name' => 'cat-slug',
   'posts_per_page' => 100500,
  ) );

Although I'm not sure that posts_per_page will directly map to limit