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1. thehalogod
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   How do you enable the number of posts in a category to show up on the sidebar?

   I'm using this theme:

   http://wpthemes.info/shaded-grey

   And want to be able to show the number of posts that are in a particular category for my blog. Let me know if you can do this.

2. miromiro
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   List categories:

   'show_count' => 1,

3. thehalogod
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Where do I put that in the sidebar though?

4. miromiro
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   It will say something like (depending on your theme - I am not familiar with shaded-grey):

   <h2>Categories</h2>
   <?php wp_list_categories('show_count' => 1'); ?>
   </li>

   Just search on 'list_categories'...

5. thehalogod
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   <?php wp_list_cats('optioncount=1'); ?>

   I had the above. When I replaced that with:

   <?php wp_list_categories('show_count' => 1'); ?>

   I got a parse error and the sidebar wouldn't display. I also tried:

   <?php wp_list_cats('show_count' => 1'); ?>

   But that didn't work either. What am I missing?

6. actorjiml
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   Change that to:
   <?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1'); ?>

   You can see what else can be done with wp_list_categories(); here.

7. moshu
   Member
   Posted 4 years ago #

   actorjiml is right - reading the documentation about the parameters is a great way to spare time :)

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