From the wiki, I’ll give the meanings of the parameters in order (0 means false, 1 means true in yes/no parameters, for those who don’t know):
0 – whether or not it should add an “All” category to the list
‘All’ – the text to use for the name of the All category (ignored in this case)
‘name’ – what to sort categories by, can be name or id
‘asc’ – sort order, ascending or descending
” – the page which the links should point to, defaults to the current page (I assume if you want to link to a different template for your archives)
1 – list – should it be returned as an HTML unordered list or not
0 – dates – Should the date a post was last made in the category be shown or not
1 – count – Should the number of posts in the category be shown or not
1 – hide_empty – Should categories without posts be suppressed or not
To add the word ‘entries’ after the number in brackets, you would have to modify the list_cats() function in wp-includes/template_functions.php as following:
change
if (intval($optioncount) == 1) {
$link .= ' ('.$category->cat_count.')';
}
to
if (intval($optioncount) == 1) {
$link .= ' ('.$category->cat_count.' entries)';
}
