gouzi

Update for wordpress 2.8.
Categories (mainly line offset):

--- wp-includes/classes.php     2009-05-20 09:05:23.000000000 -0700
+++ wp-includes/classes.php     2009-06-27 16:13:48.000000000 -0700
@@ -1333,7 +1333,12 @@
                else
                        $link .= 'title="' . esc_attr( strip_tags( apply_filters( 'category_description', $category->description, $category ) ) ) . '"';
                $link .= '>';
-               $link .= $cat_name . '</a>';
+               $link .= $cat_name;
+
+               if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
+                       $link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')';
+
+               $link .=  '</a>';

                if ( (! empty($feed_image)) || (! empty($feed)) ) {
                        $link .= ' ';
@@ -1363,8 +1368,8 @@
                                $link .= ')';
                }

-               if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
-                       $link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')';
+               /*if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
+                       $link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')'; */

                if ( isset($show_date) && $show_date ) {
                        $link .= ' ' . gmdate('Y-m-d', $category->last_update_timestamp);

Archives (more complete):

--- wp-includes/general-template.php    2009-06-10 17:04:20.000000000 -0700
+++ wp-includes/general-template.php    2009-06-27 16:10:28.000000000 -0700
@@ -819,7 +819,8 @@
                                $url = get_month_link( $arcresult->year, $arcresult->month );
                                $text = sprintf(__('%1$s %2$d'), $wp_locale->get_month($arcresult->month), $arcresult->year);
                                if ( $show_post_count )
-                                       $after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')' . $afterafter;
+                                       /*$after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')' . $afterafter;*/
+                                       $text .= ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')';
                                $output .= get_archives_link($url, $text, $format, $before, $after);
                        }
                }
@@ -840,7 +841,8 @@
                                $url = get_year_link($arcresult->year);
                                $text = sprintf('%d', $arcresult->year);
                                if ($show_post_count)
-                                       $after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')' . $afterafter;
+                                       /*$after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')' . $afterafter;*/
+                                       $text .= ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')';
                                $output .= get_archives_link($url, $text, $format, $before, $after);
                        }
                }
@@ -862,7 +864,8 @@
                                $date = sprintf('%1$d-%2$02d-%3$02d 00:00:00', $arcresult->year, $arcresult->month, $arcresult->dayofmonth);
                                $text = mysql2date($archive_day_date_format, $date);
                                if ($show_post_count)
-                                       $after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')'.$afterafter;
+                                       /*$after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')'.$afterafter;*/
+                                       $text .= ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')';
                                $output .= get_archives_link($url, $text, $format, $before, $after);
                        }
                }
@@ -891,7 +894,8 @@
                                                $url  = sprintf('%1$s/%2$s%3$sm%4$s%5$s%6$sw%7$s%8$d', get_option('home'), '', '?', '=', $arc_year, '&', '=', $arcresult->week);
                                                $text = $arc_week_start . $archive_week_separator . $arc_week_end;
                                                if ($show_post_count)
-                                                       $after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')'.$afterafter;
+                                                       /*$after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')'.$afterafter;*/
+                                                       $text .= ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')';
                                                $output .= get_archives_link($url, $text, $format, $before, $after);
                                        }
                                }

To do the same with the Archives, I modified wp-includes/general-template.php:

--- wp-includes/general-template.php    2008-12-30 10:35:45.000000000 -0800
+++ wp-includes/general-template.php    2009-06-27 15:45:52.000000000 -0700
@@ -766,7 +766,8 @@
                                $url = get_month_link( $arcresult->year, $arcresult->month );
                                $text = sprintf(__('%1$s %2$d'), $wp_locale->get_month($arcresult->month), $arcresult->year);
                                if ( $show_post_count )
-                                       $after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')' . $afterafter;
+                                       /*$after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')' . $afterafter;*/
+                                       $text .= ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')';
                                $output .= get_archives_link($url, $text, $format, $before, $after);
                        }
                }

IMHO it would be nice to have the choice to select where the options have to be added (part of the link or outside…).

I’m not sure where is the best place to ask though.

The only way I could make it work with the categories’ widget is to modify wp-includes/classes.php as following:

--- wp-includes/classes.php     2008-12-09 10:03:31.000000000 -0800
+++ wp-includes/classes.php     2009-06-27 15:13:25.000000000 -0700
@@ -1318,7 +1318,12 @@
                else
                        $link .= 'title="' . attribute_escape( apply_filters( 'category_description', $category->description, $category )) . '"';
                $link .= '>';
-               $link .= $cat_name . '</a>';
+               $link .= $cat_name;
+
+               if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
+                       $link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')';
+
+               $link .=  '</a>';

                if ( (! empty($feed_image)) || (! empty($feed)) ) {
                        $link .= ' ';
@@ -1348,8 +1353,8 @@
                                $link .= ')';
                }

-               if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
-                       $link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')';
+               /*if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
+                       $link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')'; */

                if ( isset($show_date) && $show_date ) {
                        $link .= ' ' . gmdate('Y-m-d', $category->last_update_timestamp);

Even if I don’t really like to modify the core of wordpress, that’s the only way I found.