[Plugin: Alkivia SidePosts] Add comments count?

Ok, I got it to work ?? This is what my /wp-content/plugins/sideposts/templates/posts.php looks like

global $more, $post;

    $current = 0;
	$total = $query->post_count;

    while ( $query->have_posts() ) {
	    $query->the_post();
        ++$current;

		echo '<li' . ak_sposts_post_class($current, $total) . '>';
		echo '<span class="sideposts-title"><a href="'. get_permalink() .'">'. get_the_title() .'</a></span>';

// Comment Count
$commentscount = get_comments_number();
if($commentscount == 1): $commenttext = 'comment'; endif;
if($commentscount > 1 || $commentscount == 0): $commenttext = 'comments'; endif;
// End Comment Count

		$date_string = '<span class="sideposts_date">'. mysql2date(get_option('date_format'), $post->post_date) .'</span>';
		echo '<br />' . apply_filters('ak_' . $i18n . '_date',  $date_string);
		// Comment Count
		echo '<span class="sideposts_date"> | '.$commentscount.' '.$commenttext.'</span>';

		// Show Full post.
		$more = false;
		the_content('<p>' . __('Read more &raquo;', $i18n) . '</p>');

        echo '</li>' . PHP_EOL;
	}

Would it be possible to have the widget title, link to the category archive?