Categories Number Thingy

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  m4rk0551 · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 1:17 pm

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  I have seen in other blogs that in their Categories, right next to the category name it has a number in brackets of how much posts are in this category.
  EXAMPLE:

  Games (40)
  Entertainment (2)

  In my blog (http://www,m4rk0551.wordpress.com/) it doesn’t show that. It just shows the Category and I can’t find a solution. Any help is appreciated.

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  raincoaster · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 1:24 pm

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  I think it’s theme-dependent. If you find a blog where it does that, scroll down to the bottom of the page and there will be a line saying what theme it is. If you switch to that theme, it should work.

  Can you give us an example of a blog where you see that? The only other thing I’m thinking is, it might be a plugin for regular WordPress.org blogs and not operable on ours.

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  m4rk0551 · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 1:31 pm

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  I am talking about this blog.

  http://www.live360.wordpress.com/

  My blog and their blog have the same skin, and both are remotely hosted by wordpress.com

  Thanks for your help in advance.

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  carocat · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 1:31 pm

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  You’re on freshy, like me, and it works for me. Have you enabled it in the dashboard?

  Dashboard –> Presentation –> Widgets –> Categories and check the ‘post count’ box.

  Hope that helps.

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  m4rk0551 · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 1:57 pm

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  Hey! Thanks a lot! It worked. Many thanks.

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  carocat · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 6:26 pm

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  You’re welcome. :)

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  timethief · Member · Apr 28, 2007 at 6:32 pm

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  /nod to carocat
  For reference the Category widget can be opened and configured to display numbers of posts as well as hierarchical structure on all themes.