How to list out your WordPress categories with a post count for each

6 January 2019

Recently I shared a snippet of code that will list out your WordPress tags with a post count for each. I should have mentioned that it's easy to adjust this code so that it lists out categories instead of tags. Here's the adjusted snippet:

<ul id="Genre-List">
    <?php
        $categories = get_categories();
        foreach ( $categories as $category ) :
        $category_link = get_category_link( $category->term_id );
    ?>
    <li>
        <a href='<?php echo $category_link; ?>' title='<?php echo $category->name; ?>' class='<?php echo $category->slug ?>'><?php echo $category->name ?> (<?php echo $category->count ?>)</a>
    </li>
    <?php
        endforeach;
    ?>
</ul>

<?php

$categories = get_categories();

foreach ( $categories as $category ) :

$category_link = get_category_link( $category->term_id );

<li>

<a href='<?php echo $category_link; ?>' title='<?php echo $category->name; ?>' class='<?php echo $category->slug ?>'><?php echo $category->name ?> (<?php echo $category->count ?>)</a>

</li>

<?php

endforeach;

</ul>

That gives you something like the following (a live example!):

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Josh

1 year ago

How do you do it for a specific category count?

Amit Srivastava

8 months ago

Hi Sir,

Woking fine, thanks.

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