ankurt

@alexandruv

Yes.

The “1” means return a string as opposed to an array.

http://codex.ww.wp.xz.cn/Function_Reference/get_post_meta

EDIT: yes, only works inside loop because of get_the_ID(), but you can swap this with $post->ID or use any ID you want.

Yes– I eventually figured it out. I can throw up a quick Gist in a sec…

Ok, guys, turns out getting the post count by counting the number of posts beloning to the category is not the way to go. Here’s the working code:

global $post;
$categories = get_categories();
foreach ( $categories as $c ) {
	$counts[$c->term_id] = $c->count;
}

That gives you a $counts array populated with category id and count number, which you can asort, reverse and slice.

Does anyone know why counting the number of posts beloning to a category doesn’t give you a proper category count?