Thank you, @codinghorror. However, I have had this hierarchy in place since day one for my business and all my content, lessons, webinars, courses, etc are built around this framework. I expose this across multiple platforms without any issues, except this one. Plus, if it was any flatter it would be … flat (I only have two levels).
So I’d rather find a way to change the technology to reflect the business, not the other way around.
Do you happen to know if this is “just” a theme-level issue? If so, I guess I could figure out how to change the theme to remove the number.
Any even better approach would be some way to query on the total number of topics in a category, including sub-categories. If so, I could maybe adjust the theme to show that. But I am guessing that’s not available - but would love to be told I am wrong 