It'd be a big help to incorporate a function into the category module that will return the number of posts that are within the container name/id passed to the function.

For example, this would allow me to display a menu that would say "Stores (15)", "Services (12)" to let people know how many stores and services are listed. In my case, the result should not count categories but actual posts within the container (though, maybe others may want the categories be counted too?)

btw, I know that you can currently display the number of posts within a category per category; this is taking that idea one level up to the container level.

- Jason