WP LOGBOOK

I am just recording my work right now. I found this to work really well.


function wt_get_category_count($input = '') {
global $wpdb;
if($input == '')
{
$category = get_the_category();
return $category[0]->category_count;
}
elseif(is_numeric($input))
{
$SQL = "SELECT $wpdb->term_taxonomy.count FROM $wpdb->terms, $wpdb->term_taxonomy WHERE $wpdb->terms.term_id=$wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id AND $wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id=$input";
return $wpdb->get_var($SQL);
}
else
{
$SQL = "SELECT $wpdb->term_taxonomy.count FROM $wpdb->terms, $wpdb->term_taxonomy WHERE $wpdb->terms.term_id=$wpdb->term_taxonomy.term_id AND $wpdb->terms.slug='$input'";
return $wpdb->get_var($SQL);
}
}

Place above in your function.php file.

And then add below inside the regular php begin and end to any location you want the count to be displayed.
echo wt_get_category_count(categoryid);

Thanks to WPCode.net for the post here.