Thank you so much for all your suggestions! To answer the question parts:
– I do just have the free version of Neve
– The Count column seems like it’s working – right now it shows Comics: 5 (Comics being the parent category), Eyes: 4 and Treasures: 1 (they’re each child categories).
When I looked at the “index page per category” link you shared, I noticed free Neve doesn’t seem to have the category or archive templates that the article describes needing. So maybe a different theme would make my life easier, or maybe I’ll need to plan on getting a paid version of a theme – I’ll check around.
Maybe worst case scenario, I’ll edit the post dates as needed to keep things in order – thank you for telling me about that!
