I did something like this myself a few days ago. I was concerned with the alphabetical listing of the categories so I used this fix to correct the issue. I threw up a quick tutorials to help folks at my blog as follows:-
https://www.avalon5.com/index.php/archives/41
The syntax of the calling PHP also delivers the post count per category. In addition if you want the same functionality on archives use the following:-
Replace the code
<?php wp_get_archives(‘type=monthly’); ?>
with
<?php get_archives(‘monthly’, ”, ‘html’, ”, ”, TRUE); ?>
That’s what worked for me. Hope it helps. If you need any help or have any questions on the tutorial – drop me a line at my blog and I’ll get back to you. Good luck.
Coyote
