Categories display items from subcategories but don't count them

[saadiq]

wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&optioncount=1')

That currently returns the list of categories hierarchically and counts the entries in each category. If you have an entry tagged with a subcategory and not the parent, the parent category correctly displays subcategory items. However, it doesn't "count" the items that belong to a subcategory and not the parent.

[rob1n]

IMO this isn't really a bug... devs?

[markjaquith]

Could go either way... although it would certainly be a little bit more computationally intense to do it the way this ticket wants. We'd have to drill down from each category adding up the totals of the subcategories. With a big tree structure, that could be a lot of drilling.

[foolswisdom]

I can't remember who it was, but I thought either Andy or Ryan spent a fair amount of time coming to the current behavior.

[andy]

This is only the default behavior.

Inheritance can be turned on by the pad_counts parameter.