You could try:

echo $this->helper(‘checkout/cart’)->getSummaryCount();

I tried to get the total number of items using the code above, but I noticed that it only count’s the number of different items in your cart, but it doesn’t take quantity into account. Is there a work around to this?

Thanks!
Chris

I think you could replace:

$blogPosts = new WP_Query();
$blogPosts->query(‘showposts=6?);

with:

$blogPosts = get_posts(‘numberposts=6′);

$blogPosts = new WP_Query();
$blogPosts->query(‘showposts=6′);
while ($blogPosts->have_posts()) {
$blogPosts->the_post();