Looking for suggestions for a catagory plugin

  • i have been having a hard time searching through all of the plugins for what I am looking for. Please suggest anything that you think would work for me.

    I just want a simple plugin to organize my catagories (my catagory list) and hopefully put a post count next to each catagory name – so it would show the number of posts in that specific catagory.

    If you know of a good one let me know, any help is greatly appreciated!

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  • What are you looking for when you say you want the categories organized?

    To show the category count, you should be able to make a simple change to your theme: open sidebar.php and find a line that looks like:

    <?php wp_list_cats(); ?>

    Change the line to:

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

    If your wp_list_cats() line has some options passed in, post it here and I can tell you how to modify it without losing your other options.

    You can find more information about wp_list_cats on the WordPress codex:

    https://codex.www.ads-software.com/Template_Tags/wp_list_cats.

    I have an article on my site about how to put the category lists into a drop down box. If that is what you are looking for when you say you want to organize them, then take a look here (it also adds counts to the ends of the categories):

    https://samsarin.com/2006/07/28/dropdown-archives-in-wordpress/.

    If not, please post more about what you’re looking for.

    Thread Starter faustina

    (@faustina)

    Thank you so much, the count tag did exactly what I wanted.

    Although I love your catagory dropdown and would use it in a different style blog that would allow that, all I want to do is re-arrange the order that the catagories appear in.

    Right now they are in a list in the order that I entered the catagories and I haven’t found any way to arrange that list so that more important things go on top. I read in the codex ways to make them appear by ID, or in alfebetical order, but I want them in a custom order. Or, is there a way to chage the catagory ID without making new ones?

    thank you for your help!

    samsarin,

    I’d like to implement your drop-down box, but I’m using widgets. How would one go about implementing it (given that my sidebar.php is largely redundant)?

    Or are you planning on making a widget out of your excellent article?!

    Faustina, perhaps this plugin will help:

    https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/51352?replies=13.

    Mpgeorge: Interesting idea. I’ll see if I can’t make a widget out of it today.

    I’ve posted the plugin and widget to my website.

    Samsarin, you are a wonderful, wonderful person.

    Many thanks for the widget; works flawlessly on my site.

    (Just as an FYI, however, I believe the widget (at least) breaks XHTML validation.)

    mpgeorge,

    Thank you for your feedback. I reproduced and fixed the breakage you described. The latest version of the plugin (version 0.2) validates as XHTML 1.0 Transitional and Strict.

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