As is discussed in this forum post; https://forum.dokuwiki.org/post/66825;nocount

I wanted to put in a sentence which read
This section has {{NUMBEROFPAGES>:this_section}} pages

If there were six pages then it would read
This section has 6 pages - this is perfect.
If there were no pages then it would read
This section has pages

turnermm suggested replacing

case "PAGES":
               search($list,$conf['datadir'].$matches[1],array($this,'_search_count'),array('all'=>false),'');
                $data = $list['file_count'];
                break;
               
 case "MEDIAS":
                search($list,$conf['mediadir'].$matches[1],array($this,'_search_count'),array('all'=>true));
                $data    = $list['file_count'];
                break;

with

 case "PAGES":
               search($list,$conf['datadir'].$matches[1],array($this,'_search_count'),array('all'=>false),'');
                $data = $list['file_count'] ? $list['file_count'] : '0';
                break;
               
case "MEDIAS":
                search($list,$conf['mediadir'].$matches[1],array($this,'_search_count'),array('all'=>true));
                $data  = $list['file_count'] ? $list['file_count'] : '0';
                break;

This has worked well.

If you get the chance, could you please implement this into the existing code of the plugin or make it an option for those using the plugin
Thank you

Hello in thish plugin when I wrtie a namespace that is wrote in persian language. it doesn't work.
For example this doesn't work:
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:صفحه}}
But this work correctly:
{{NUMBEROFPAGES:wiki}}

The plugin throws several PHP warnings when viewing an uncached page, or when editing / previewing a page:

Warning: Undefined array key 1 in ./dokuwiki/lib/plugins/numberof/syntax.php on line 26
Warning: Undefined array key "dir_nest" in ./dokuwiki/lib/plugins/numberof/syntax.php on line 49
Warning: Undefined array key "dir_count" in ./dokuwiki/lib/plugins/numberof/syntax.php on line 50
Warning: Undefined array key "file_count" in ./dokuwiki/lib/plugins/numberof/syntax.php on line 54

Pull request follows.

Could you change the plugin so that a dynamic update of the pagenumber was possible?

Cheers
::: Alex