How to remove brackets in post_count?

Question

WordPress

There is a widget for tags and archives. In the widget panel, I checked the "Show the number of entries" checkbox. But it shows with brackets

How can I remove them? There is such a solution, but I did not really understand how to apply it.
Thanks in advance

Answer 1

You need to remove the categories widget in the widgets and instead put the HTML content or text widget in its place (sorry, I don’t remember the exact name of it). Go from Design to Text tab and paste this code:

<?php
    $variable = wp_list_categories('echo=0&show_count=1&title_li=<h3>Рубрики</h3>');
    $variable = str_replace(array('(',')'), '', $variable);
    echo $variable;
?>

But most likely it will not work right away, because widgets do not process php code by default. Then install a plugin that allows you to write php code in widgets and paste the code above. This plugin is easy to find