Count posts or custom post types from last 24 hours (or from today)

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I would like to display count for custom post types (or posts) which was published that day (last 24 hours or TODAY).
I use this snippet to get count of all posts from “posts” or from “custom post types” 

<?php
    $numposts = $wpdb->get_var("SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->posts WHERE (post_status = 'publish' AND post_type = 'post')");
    if (0 < $numposts) $numposts = number_format($numposts);
?>

in templates:

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<?php echo $numposts ?>

but I don’t know how to display count only for last 24 hours or TODAY (it means from midnight to midnight)

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  1. You can write your own function (add it to functions.php file:

    function get_posts_count_from_last_24h($post_type ='post') {
    global $wpdb;

    $numposts = $wpdb->get_var(
        $wpdb->prepare(
            "SELECT COUNT(ID) ".
            "FROM {$wpdb->posts} ".
            "WHERE ".
                "post_status='publish' ".
                "AND post_type= %s ".
                "AND post_date> %s",
            $post_type, date('Y-m-d H:i:s', strtotime('-24 hours'))
        )
    );
    return $numposts;
}

function get_posts_count_from_today($post_type ='post') {
    global $wpdb;

    $numposts = $wpdb->get_var(
        $wpdb->prepare(
            "SELECT COUNT(ID) ".
            "FROM {$wpdb->posts} ".
            "WHERE post_status='publish' ".
                "AND post_type= %s ".
                "AND DATE_FORMAT(post_date, '%Y-%m-%d') = %s",
            $post_type, date('Y-m-d', time())
        )
    );
    return $numposts;
}

    And then use it in template:

    <?php echo get_posts_count_from_last_24h(); ?>
<?php echo get_posts_count_from_today(); ?>

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