Title: Functions.php Hates Me
Last modified: August 19, 2016

---

# Functions.php Hates Me

 *  Resolved [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/)
 * (@thisisedie)
 * [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-hates-me/)
 * Call me slow but I just recently figured out what a themes functions.php is used
   for so how to use it is still 99.99% a mystery to me. Following directions at
   a site I Googled up, I customized the way my excerpts look using it. Now I want
   to customize the way the post count looks on archives (want JUST the count to
   be small font) and I found where to do that in the general-template in the core
   files but when I try to implement it in functions.php the same way I did for 
   the excerpts, it doesn’t work. If someone could enlighten me to the proper way
   to do this I’d be ever so grateful. Here’s the code that doesn’t work:
 *     ```
       remove_filter('wp_get_archives', 'get_archives_link');
       add_filter('wp_get_archives', 'small_post_count');
   
       function small_post_count($url, $text, $format = 'html', $before = '', $after = '') {
       $text = wptexturize($text);
       $title_text = attribute_escape($text);
       $url = clean_url($url);
       if ('link' == $format)
       $link_html = "\t<link rel='archives' title='$title_text' href='$url' />\n";
       elseif ('option' == $format)
       $link_html = "\t<option value='$url'>$before $text $after</option>\n";
       elseif ('html' == $format)
       $link_html = "\t<li>$before<a href='$url' title='$title_text'>$text</a>$after</li>\n";
       else // custom
       $link_html = "\t$before<a href='$url' title='$title_text'>$text</a><small>$after</small>\n";
       $link_html = apply_filters( "get_archives_link", $link_html );
       return $link_html;
       }
       ```
   

The topic ‘Functions.php Hates Me’ is closed to new replies.

 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/functionsphp-hates-me/)
 * Status: resolved

## Topics

### Topics with no replies

### Non-support topics

### Resolved topics

### Unresolved topics

### All topics