# Total Posts count instead of Post per month

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-posts-count-instead-of-post-per-month/283992
**Category:** Development
**Created:** [October 31, 2023, 9:59am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-posts-count-instead-of-post-per-month/283992 "2023-10-31T09:59:31Z")
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### Author: ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)
#### Post date: [October 31, 2023, 1:14pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/total-posts-count-instead-of-post-per-month/283992/2 "2023-10-31T13:14:33Z")

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If you look at [https://meta.discourse.org/categories.json](https://meta.discourse.org/categories.json) you can see something like this:

```plaintext
category_list: {
can_create_category: false,
can_create_topic: true,
categories: [
{
id: 67,
name: "announcements",
color: "ED207B",
text_color: "FFFFFF",
slug: "announcements",
topic_count: 289,
post_count: 3693,
position: 0,

```

So the data you need is there.

If you install [(deprecated) Plugin outlet locations theme component](https://meta.discourse.org/t/plugin-outlet-locations-theme-component/100673) you can see where you can easily insert new information:

 ![image](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/4X/a/b/9/ab9e0fbe95783b5313ec94a48809433edf39c6ea.png)

It’s not going to be easy (for me, at least) to replace the topics. If you’re OK with having it in the `below-category-title-link`, you could do that in a theme component. I suspose it’s possible to re-write the number with some javascript magic.

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