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@Soean Soean commented Mar 22, 2026

We don't need to initialize $post_counts as an empty array, since it will be overwritten directly by the filter value in line 502

Trac ticket: https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/64238


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LGTM, likely an artifact from before the filter was introduced in 6.1.0

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Thanks for the PR! Merged in r62091.

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