Post Count in Categories

Anything here to help?
https://linux.linux.dk/projects/

Nope, tried them all. They count comments, users, characters, words, categories, the total number of posts in the entire blog, but not posts in the categories.

Any other thoughts?

Here I use Template_Tags/wp_list_cats and styled the nested lists in the stylesheet. It displays even the sub-sub-categories indented.

That looks like what I had in mind to use but I am unable to determine just how you did this to recreate it. Would you please post the exact info you used to set this up?

Thanks

You have to keep in mind 2 things (at least:)
– WP generates “list in list” i.e. nested lists for the subcategories (like ul ul ul li)
– you have to define the style for those nested lists in the style.css
Hint: when you are not sure what code is generated by WP, always take a look at the source code of the blog when displayed in the browser. You can download that theme from the link above and take a look at the stylesheet’s #sidebar lists section.

moshu,

Thanks for your answers but I tried and tried and could not get it to work. For some reason I just could not figure out the CSS to make the parent headings and the children and the lines between each work together. I was getting some extra lines after each parent section and no line under the parent listing. Needless to say, I gave up and resigned to have it the way I already did.

I did, however, fix my own problem before totally giving up. It just took some time. One thing you did steer me towards was wp_list_cats, which, with a little effort, worked as I wanted it to when list_cats would not. (I did not need to add anything to the CSS and used the arguments.) The template I had used the list_cats but for some reason the arguments did not work as I had wanted them to. Also if anyone is interested, to get it to work as I wanted when using the wp_list_cats I was not able to use the “exclude all but the categories I wanted” but instead I had to use the “child_of” argument listing the parent category and then exclude any other category in that parent category that I didn’t want, which actually was better in the long run as I wasn’t typing so many numbers in the argument. I don’t know why it didn’t work that way but it could have something to do with the fact that my parent categories never have any posts but are just there for organizing. These may be bugs in the program or something that I was doing wrong but either way I’ve now got it to look like I wanted.

For anyone that is trying the same thing, here is the code I used. Might not be the best code but I figure posting it here might make someone’s life a little easier, even though you won’t learn as much this way. I would have much rather been writing in my blog than trying code after code till one worked.

a href=”index.php?cat=xx”>Category_Name</a

<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&sort_order=asc&optioncount=1&hide_empty=0&children=1&child_of=x&exclude=zz’) ?>

xx=Category_ID#
zz=any sub categories to exclude
I put one line for each of my parent categories.
Be sure to put the opening and closing < > on the first line but I didn’t include it so it would print here.

to get category counts to show in
https://www.girlgeekette.net/
on the left menu

i edited wp-includes/template-functions-category.php
so that

if (!isset($r[‘optioncount’])) $r[‘optioncount’] = 0;

to say
if (!isset($r[‘optioncount’])) $r[‘optioncount’] = 1;

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oops, I just read the last post you made where you said you fixed it, sorry!

The option count trick worked for me – thank you!!