What are you looking for when you say you want the categories organized?
To show the category count, you should be able to make a simple change to your theme: open sidebar.php and find a line that looks like:
<?php wp_list_cats(); ?>
Change the line to:
<?php wp_list_cats('optioncount=1'); ?>
If your wp_list_cats() line has some options passed in, post it here and I can tell you how to modify it without losing your other options.
You can find more information about wp_list_cats on the WordPress codex:
http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats.
I have an article on my site about how to put the category lists into a drop down box. If that is what you are looking for when you say you want to organize them, then take a look here (it also adds counts to the ends of the categories):
http://samsarin.com/2006/07/28/dropdown-archives-in-wordpress/.
If not, please post more about what you’re looking for.
Thank you so much, the count tag did exactly what I wanted.
Although I love your catagory dropdown and would use it in a different style blog that would allow that, all I want to do is re-arrange the order that the catagories appear in.
Right now they are in a list in the order that I entered the catagories and I haven’t found any way to arrange that list so that more important things go on top. I read in the codex ways to make them appear by ID, or in alfebetical order, but I want them in a custom order. Or, is there a way to chage the catagory ID without making new ones?
thank you for your help!
samsarin,
I’d like to implement your drop-down box, but I’m using widgets. How would one go about implementing it (given that my sidebar.php is largely redundant)?
Or are you planning on making a widget out of your excellent article?!
Faustina, perhaps this plugin will help:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/51352?replies=13.
Mpgeorge: Interesting idea. I’ll see if I can’t make a widget out of it today.
I’ve posted the plugin and widget to my website.
Samsarin, you are a wonderful, wonderful person.
Many thanks for the widget; works flawlessly on my site.
(Just as an FYI, however, I believe the widget (at least) breaks XHTML validation.)
mpgeorge,
Thank you for your feedback. I reproduced and fixed the breakage you described. The latest version of the plugin (version 0.2) validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and Strict.
