Remove post count from Wordpress custom widget - php

Question

I'm a noob running a project theme Wordpress website. There is a widget that shows a "Browse by Category" list in columns.
The widget shows the post count in brackets next to the category heading. I want to remove that.
Any help would be greatly appreciated.
This is the code for the widget:
add_action('widgets_init', 'register_browse_by_category_widget');
function register_browse_by_category_widget() {
register_widget('ProjectTheme_browse_by_category');
}
class ProjectTheme_browse_by_category extends WP_Widget {
function ProjectTheme_browse_by_category() {
$widget_ops = array( 'classname' => 'browse-by-category', 'description' => 'Show all categories and browse by category' );
$control_ops = array( 'width' => 200, 'height' => 250, 'id_base' => 'browse-by-category' );
$this->WP_Widget( 'browse-by-category', 'ProjectTheme - Browse by Category', $widget_ops, $control_ops );
}
function widget($args, $instance) {
extract($args);
echo $before_widget;
if ($instance['title']) echo $before_title . apply_filters('widget_title', $instance['title']) . $after_title;
$loc_per_row = $instance['loc_per_row'];
$widget_id = $args['widget_id'];
$nr_rows = $instance['nr_rows'];
$only_these = $instance['only_these'];
$only_parents = $instance['only_parents'];
if($only_parents == "on") $only_parents = true;
else $only_parents = false;
$nr = 4;
if(!empty($loc_per_row)) $nr = $loc_per_row;
echo '<style>#'.$widget_id.' #location-stuff li>ul { width: '.(round(100/$nr)-0.5).'%}</style>';
if($nr_rows > 0) $jk = "&number=".($nr_rows * $loc_per_row);
$terms_k = get_terms("project_cat","parent=0&hide_empty=0");
$terms = get_terms("project_cat","parent=0&hide_empty=0".$jk);
//$term = get_term( $term_id, $taxonomy );
if($only_these == "1")
{
$terms = array();
foreach($terms_k as $trm)
{
if($instance['term_' . $trm->term_id] == $trm->term_id)
array_push($terms, $trm);
}
}
//-----------------------------
if(count($terms) < count($terms_k)) $disp_btn = 1;
else $disp_btn = 0;
$count = count($terms); $i = 0;
if ( $count > 0 ){
echo "<ul id='location-stuff'>";
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
if($i%$nr == 0) echo "<li>";
$total_ads = 0;
$terms2 = '';
$terms2 = get_terms("project_cat","parent=".$term->term_id."&hide_empty=0");
$mese = '';
$mese .= '<ul>';
$mese .= "<img src=\"".get_bloginfo('template_url')."/images/posted.png\" width=\"20\" height=\"20\" />
<h3><a class='parent_taxe' rel='taxe_project_cat_".$term->term_id."' href='".get_term_link($term->slug,"project_cat")."'>" . $term->name;
//."</a></h3>";
$total_ads = ProjectTheme_get_custom_taxonomy_count('project',$term->slug);
$mese2 = '';
if($terms2 && $only_parents == false)
{
foreach ( $terms2 as $term2 )
{
$tt = ProjectTheme_get_custom_taxonomy_count('project',$term2->slug);
$total_ads += $tt;
//$mese2 .= "<li><a href='".get_term_link($term2->slug,"project_cat")."'>" . $term2->name." (".$tt.")</a></li>";
$mese2 .= "<li><a href='".get_term_link($term2->slug,"project_cat")."'>" . $term2->name." </a></li>";
}
}
echo $mese."(".$total_ads.")</a></h3>";
echo '<ul id="_project_cat_'.$term->term_id.'">'.$mese2."</ul>";
echo '</ul>';
if(($i+1) % $nr == 0) echo "</li>";
$i++;
}
//if(($i+1) % $nr != 0) echo "</li>";
echo "</ul>";
}
if($disp_btn == 1)
{
echo '<br/><b>'.__('See More Categories','ProjectTheme').'</b>';
}
echo $after_widget;
}
function update($new_instance, $old_instance) {
return $new_instance;
}
function form($instance) { ?>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>"><?php _e('Title'); ?>:</label>
<input type="text" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('title'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('title'); ?>"
value="<?php echo esc_attr( $instance['title'] ); ?>" style="width:95%;" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('only_parents'); ?>"><?php _e('Only show parent categories'); ?>:</label>
<input type="checkbox" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('only_parents'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('only_parents'); ?>"
<?php echo (esc_attr( $instance['only_parents'] ) == "on" ? "checked='checked'" : ""); ?> />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('loc_per_row'); ?>"><?php _e('Number of Columns'); ?>:</label>
<input type="text" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('loc_per_row'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('loc_per_row'); ?>"
value="<?php echo esc_attr( $instance['loc_per_row'] ); ?>" style="width:20%;" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('nr_rows'); ?>"><?php _e('Number of Rows'); ?>:</label>
<input type="text" id="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('nr_rows'); ?>" name="<?php echo $this->get_field_name('nr_rows'); ?>"
value="<?php echo esc_attr( $instance['nr_rows'] ); ?>" style="width:20%;" />
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('nr_rows'); ?>"><?php _e('Only show categories below'); ?>:</label>
<?php echo '<input type="checkbox" name="'.$this->get_field_name('only_these').'" value="1" '.(
$instance['only_these'] == "1" ? ' checked="checked" ' : "" ).' /> '; ?>
</p>
<p>
<label for="<?php echo $this->get_field_id('nr_rows'); ?>"><?php _e('Categories to show'); ?>:</label>
<div style=" width:220px;
height:180px;
background-color:#ffffff;
overflow:auto;border:1px solid #ccc">
<?php
$terms = get_terms("project_cat","parent=0&hide_empty=0");
foreach ( $terms as $term ) {
echo '<input type="checkbox" name="'.$this->get_field_name('term_'.$term->term_id).'" value="'.$term->term_id.'" '.(
$instance['term_'.$term->term_id] == $term->term_id ? ' checked="checked" ' : "" ).' /> ';
echo $term->name.'<br/>';
}
?>
</div>
</p>
<?php
}
}
?>

Answer 1

this is the part of code that writes the number of posts by category ...
change this
echo $mese."(".$total_ads.")</a>
with
echo $mese."</a>";