On the theme I’m using (Big City), the wordpress default for showing counts next to categories looks awful. The lines break after the link, so it will say something like “Technology ::break:: (31)”. The solution I found was basically just to hack the code where it prints the count, and move that up. This stuff is hard-coded in wordress, and I couldn’t find a CSS solution to my problem (I do suck at CSS, but that’s another story).
Here are the changes as of WP 2.8.
In “general-template.php”, locate the lines that say
$after = ' ('.$arcresult->posts.')' . $afterafter;
and change them to
$text .= <...>
There are a number of such lines, so this will make them all consistent. I think I counted 4 such changes.
The other change to make is in “classes.php”. Break line 1336 (which looked something like this before I got to it)
$link .= $cat_name . "</a>";
So that it becomes
$link .= $cat_name; $link .= "</a>";
Now move up this block between those two lines:
if ( isset($show_count) && $show_count )
$link .= ' (' . intval($category->count) . ')';
This will change your formatting slightly if you were using the feed code, and I don’t have a good answer for you on that.
