Subcategories and Categories with no subcategories don't show views/reply counts

shapelychops
Fri, 13 Mar 2026 22:19:29 +0000
Support

We’re using the Ghost theme, loving it, looks great, except we noticed only certain categories in our forum were showing view counts and reply counts in the topic list, and after much hair-pulling, we realized what the categories that were showing it had in common - those categories all had subcategories.

So any category with at least one visible subcategory shows topic views and reply counts, but any subcategories, and any category without a subcategory does not.

Curiously though, the view and reply counts show up if you click the tags dropdown menu, then select “no tags”.

Using inspect, we see the views and reply counts are contained within the link-bottom-line container in the Ghost Theme, which is unique to the theme compared to the default theme. The category badge, view counts, and reply counts all share that same container, which doesn’t appear when there are no subcategories.

We would love to find a way to have view and reply counts show up for all categories, regardless of their child-free status.

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