You could use the following script to number posts then if you needed to display ‘post number X’ of ‘X’ you could use another funtion to get the total count.
http://www.wprecipes.com/how-to-display-an-incrementing-number-next-to-each-published-post
Hope this helps
^JD
Thanks. That seems to add a number when you publish or create a post, but not the sequence number of the post in that particular category
as ‘wp_count_posts()’ is not category specific, this might get a bit more complicated.
try (assuming an ordinary loop, no custom query or so):
global $query_string;
$all_post_query = new WP_Query($query_string.'&posts_per_page=-1');
$all_posts = $all_post_query->post_count;
$this_post_nr = 1 + $wp_query->current_post + (get_query_var('paged')?(get_query_var('paged')-1) : 0) * get_option('posts_per_page');
$count_posts = $all_post_query->post_count;
echo $this_post_nr.' of '.$count_posts.' drawings.';
