Get padded term count in term search results with SearchWP and Term Archive Priority

gistfile1.txt

//Code in search loop for term item:

$tax = $post->term->taxonomy; 
$termid = $post->term->term_id;
$termchildren = get_term_children( $termid, $tax);

if ( !empty( $termchildren ) && !is_wp_error( $termchildren ) ){

	$termchildren[] = $termid; //add parent to the array of children
	
	//get all terms in the taxonomy of this term, but only from parent down, plus add parent
	$terms = get_terms($tax, array(
		'include' => $termchildren, //only parent and children, needed for pad_counts
		'pad_counts' => true
	) );
  
	$item = null; // can be error
	foreach($terms as $struct) {
		if ($termid == $struct->term_id) {//find th current term again to retrieve its padded count
			$item = $struct;
			$postcount = $item->count;
			break;
		}
	}
		
} else {

$postcount = $post->term->count;	//we already had the non-padded count in the post object.

}
echo $postcount;
  
  //https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/_pad_term_counts/
  //This says:"Assumes all relevant children are already in the $terms argument." 
  //So we need parent and child terms to calculate pad_counts
  
  // Related:http://wordpress.stackexchange.com/questions/48106/category-pad-counts-parent-conflict