Comments on: Getting WordPress Post Counts to show up inside anchor tag

By: skratchdot.com

skratchdot.com — Fri, 18 Mar 2011 03:50:01 +0000

Thanks for the feedback! It sounds like the path you took actually makes more sense. When I wrote this back in 2009, I didn’t have much experience w/ WordPress themes, and couldn’t find any links explaining how to make (what I thought should be) this easy change.

I took this quick route just to get something out there (I’m not even using that theme anymore). I definitely don’t like the idea of copy-n-pasting a bunch of code to make small tweaks. I should have taken a more OOP approach.

Anyways, thanks again for the comments!

By: Cristian Giordano

Cristian Giordano — Thu, 17 Mar 2011 10:48:26 +0000

Hey buddy,

Working on from this tutorial, I chose another method, I created a new Walker class and modified the walker code to make the count show up inside the link. Then used a filter to grab the arguments just before it was passed to the wp_list_categories() method.

Note: I was trying to modify a categories widget.

Cheers

By: Cristian Giordano

Cristian Giordano — Wed, 16 Mar 2011 18:09:52 +0000

Thanks for this, I should have thought of doing this in the first place rather than settling for second best.

Keep up the good work.

By: susan

susan — Wed, 15 Sep 2010 07:01:26 +0000

you rock. i’ve been searching and searching and searching. thank you!

By: skratchdot.com

skratchdot.com — Wed, 23 Sep 2009 02:57:14 +0000

There’s probably a better way to override the default widget behavior, but after searching around for a little bit, I couldn’t find a way (so I came up with this quick/dirty/hacky workaround).