Title: Custom Menu limitation, adding post count, etc
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Custom Menu limitation, adding post count, etc

 *  [groverblue](https://wordpress.org/support/users/groverblue/)
 * (@groverblue)
 * [15 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-limitation-adding-post-count-etc/)
 * I’ve created a custom menu under the “Menus” page or wp admin, and I’ve noticed
   a few limitations.
 * First, there isn’t a way to add the post count to the categories added to a custom
   menu.
 * Second, for any category added, there is no way to indicate that I want to display
   it’s sub-categories (ie, a hierarchy).
 * Third, isn’t there a way that I want all sub-categories of a specific parent-
   category to be displayed? Right now, if I add a new sub-category, and have to
   remember to update the custom menu. It would be more convenient to just specify
   a root category (and maybe an option to only show the sub-categories).
 * Is any of this possible with custom menus, or are they meant for very basic menus?
 * In addition, I’d like to note the following: if I have two sub-categories with
   the same name but under different parent-categories, I’d differentiate between
   the two when selecting from the “Categories” panel to the left (parent is not
   indicated).

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 *  [nakedsoul](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nakedsoul/)
 * (@nakedsoul)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-limitation-adding-post-count-etc/#post-2026041)
 * SAME PROBLEM HERE WORDPRESS SUPPORT SUCKS EXTREMLY
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-limitation-adding-post-count-etc/#post-2026045)
 * Please don’t SHOUT.
 *  [elz064](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elz064/)
 * (@elz064)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-limitation-adding-post-count-etc/#post-2026104)
 * up ?
 * Same question.
    How to output the post number (count) for each categoies using
   wp_nav_menu ???
 * thank you
 *  [Chip Bennett](https://wordpress.org/support/users/chipbennett/)
 * (@chipbennett)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-limitation-adding-post-count-etc/#post-2026105)
 * The simple answer is: you don’t, by default.
 * The complex answer is that you probably _can_, but you’ll probably need to get
   familiar with creating a custom walker for `wp_nav_menu()`, which is a fairly
   advanced topic.
 *  [elz064](https://wordpress.org/support/users/elz064/)
 * (@elz064)
 * [14 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/custom-menu-limitation-adding-post-count-etc/#post-2026106)
 * yep I’m on it’s api doc.
 * Probably not for my skill anyway.

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