Postcount not set for parent in category dropdown.

[petervanderdoes]

When showing categories in a dropdown with show_count and hierarchical , the parent of the categories won't show the total amount of posts of its children.
When selecting a list this teh total amount is shown.

The padcount_in_dropdown patch should fix the bug.

punting per IRC discussion

No community testing of patch > punting b/c we're in beta.

Postcount in the dropdown is not the sum of the parent and children.

Replying to petervanderdoes:

When showing categories in a dropdown with show_count and hierarchical , the parent of the categories won't show the total amount of posts of its children.

Well, should it? Is this a bug or a enhancement / feature request? Please name the API functions you're experiencing this.

It works that way in the wp_list_categories, not in wp_dropdown_categories

So your suggestion here would streamline the behaviour in wp_dropdown_categroies with wp_list_categories, right?

If so I think this is a good idea to have more consistency between the two.

Realted: #11514