# Getting the number of published posts > Learn the quick and easy way to display the total number of published blog posts on your Docusaurus site using custom components and theme API. ---  **TL;DR** This article shows a quick trick to count published Docusaurus blog posts: open the auto-generated `/blog/archive/` page, open the browser's developer console, and run a `document.querySelectorAll` instruction against the list of post entries to get the total count. Docusaurus didn't provide an easy way to retrieve the number of blog posts but there is a trick. *If you need that count **inside** your site rather than once in a console, the helper built in [Displaying related posts below our Docusaurus article](/blog/docusaurus-relatedposts) already parses every post's front matter and can be reused for this.* There is an automatic page called `archive` like [/blog/archive/](/blog/archive/). On that page, all blog posts are displayed by year and months. With a `document.querySelectorAll` console instruction it's possible to make the count as suggested on  Once the archive page has been displayed, press `F12` to start the **Developer console**. Click on the `Console` tab then, in the right bottom part, copy/paste the instruction below. ```js document.querySelectorAll("#__docusaurus_skipToContent_fallback > main > section > div > div > div > ul > li") ``` The first time, the console will notify you that you should allow pasting (in French *autoriser le collage*). Please type `allow paste` to confirm. Then copy/paste again. The `document.querySelectorAll` instruction will retrieve every bullet i.e. the list of posts. You'll immediately see the number, in my case, as illustrated below, `51`: