Count Posts in Date Range
Attempt 1
// WP_Query arguments $args = array( 'post_type' => array( 'post' ), 'post_status' => array( 'publish' ), 'nopaging' => true, 'order' => 'ASC', 'orderby' => 'date', 'date_query' => array( 'relation' => 'AND', array( 'before' => array( 'year' => 2019, 'month' => 4, 'day' => 1, ), 'after' => array( 'year' => 2018, 'month' => 12, 'day' => 31, ), 'inclusive' => false, ), ), ); // The Query $count_posts = new WP_Query( $args );