This Should Be Easy[ier]: Count Number of Posts in any WordPress Site with Javascript

As often, what begins as a simple question or small need spins out a series of digging, experimenting, and ultimately spending more time remixing a featured image (by hand) and writing a blog post that 4 people may read. Ahhh, 2026. That’s another grumbly post. But here it is, I was rather taken by this fantastic web site created at Thompsons Rivers University called Indigenous Peoples in Education: A Stock Photo Collection really worth leaving here and going to appreciate what and why this site was created. Someone may have been inspired to nominate it for an Open Education Award for Excellence. Maybe. https://indigenouseducationstockphotos.trubox.ca/ At first I was warmed that this might have been built with the TRU Collector SPLOT, but is not. It makes good use of the same parent theme that I love, Fukasawa by Anders Noren. No big deal. I was curious to know how many photos were in this collection (not to brag, but its built into the sidebar of TRU Collector, see example.) Thus the…