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digitaldave2
(@digitaldave2)

20 years, 2 months ago

I was wondering if anyone knew the code or of a plug in that would easily allow you to display the amount of posts in each category.

So if I make 5 posts to the “New Post” category, on the menu it will out “New Post (5)”. And so on for each other category.

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Thread Starter digitaldave2
(@digitaldave2)

20 years, 2 months ago

can someone please help?

skulled
(@skulled)

20 years, 2 months ago

Please take a look here:

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats

You need to have something like this:

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

moshu
(@moshu)

20 years, 2 months ago

WP does that without any plugin. See the parameters of the Template_Tags/wp_list_cats tag (or the one it’s used in your sidebar).

Thread Starter digitaldave2
(@digitaldave2)

20 years, 2 months ago

<?php wp_list_cats(‘sort_column=name&optioncount=1’); ?>

Ok this code works but displays the count below the category

New Posts
(5)

Is there an argument to have it all show on one line?

moshu
(@moshu)

20 years, 2 months ago

Argument? No. You’ll have to play with the CSS.

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

20 years, 2 months ago

What theme are you using? Look at the css for it.

Thread Starter digitaldave2
(@digitaldave2)

20 years, 2 months ago

What in the css would break it to the next line?

skulled
(@skulled)

20 years, 2 months ago

The width of your sidebar perhaps is not wide enough to accommodate the whole line properly and thats why its getting pushed down maybe ..

Thread Starter digitaldave2
(@digitaldave2)

20 years, 2 months ago

There’s plenty of room on the bar. It isn’t taking the <ul> <li> tags either as far as color and size. Is there a way to run the optioncount argument seperately?

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

20 years, 2 months ago

Look for any use of display: block; related to your sidebar links (i.e. a tag). This can push any text on a line to the next one.

skulled
(@skulled)

20 years, 2 months ago

Can you post the link to where you have this running?

And what do you mean run the optioncount argument separately?

Thread Starter digitaldave2
(@digitaldave2)

20 years, 2 months ago

I got it to work it was simply a block I forgot about.

Thanks guys

semperfidelis
(@semperfidelis)

20 years, 2 months ago

i have the samen problem.

the (#) apears in the next line.
http://www.pdsxxi.com.ar

i can´t find in the css the right line of code to modificate.

semperfidelis
(@semperfidelis)

20 years, 2 months ago

ok. i fix it. was a display:block in the css too. thanks.

Kafkaesqui
(@kafkaesqui)

20 years, 2 months ago

Just to note for future queries, when using the Blix theme the display: block; in this case is found under:

#navigation li a

in the theme’s layout.css.