In the default category widget, when you check the "show posts count" checkbox, the number of posts appear surrounded by parentheses, how to remove them.
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Personally, I would create a custom Widget that loads the categories from the database and echoing them in whatever fashion you like with custom styling and tags. For this you will need get_categories() that returns the categories in an associative array and a slightly altered version of this function to get the post count in each category. This might be an overkill for such a small change though. – Dzhuneyt Feb 26 '13 at 23:07
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1I agree, the best way would be to create a custom widget, but i found a light solution to do this specific job, I posted it below :) – Rahman Sharif Feb 26 '13 at 23:19
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Add this code to your functions.php file and it will remove the parentheses and surround the post count with a span with a class to easily style it.
function categories_postcount_filter ($variable) {
$variable = str_replace('(', '<span class="post_count"> ', $variable);
$variable = str_replace(')', ' </span>', $variable);
return $variable;
}
add_filter('wp_list_categories','categories_postcount_filter');
++Bonus In the archive widget, if you checked "Show posts count" checkbox you'll see the same parentheses around posts count, here's another filter to remove them and add a class to easily style theme.
function archive_postcount_filter ($variable) {
$variable = str_replace('(', ' ', $variable);
$variable = str_replace(')', ' ', $variable);
return $variable;
}
add_filter('get_archives_link', 'archive_postcount_filter');
