Move the posts count inside the link of the Archive and Category widgets of WordPress

link_inside_archive_and_category_widget.php

<?php /* This code filters the Categories archive widget to include the post count inside the link */
add_filter('wp_list_categories', 'cat_count_span');
function cat_count_span($links) {
  $links = str_replace('</a> (', ' (', $links);
  $links = str_replace(')', ')</a>', $links);
  return $links;
}
/* This code filters the Archive widget to include the post count inside the link */
add_filter('get_archives_link', 'archive_count_span');
function archive_count_span($links) {
  $links = str_replace('</a>&nbsp;(', ' (', $links);
  $links = str_replace(')', ')</a>', $links);
  return $links;
}?>

Whoa... That's pretty nice. Thanks for this! I did have to do some tweaking though.

add_filter('wp_list_categories', 'cat_count_span');
function cat_count_span($links) {
    $links = str_replace('</a>', '', $links);
    $links = str_replace('</li>', '</a></li>', $links);
    return $links;
}

I actually had some categories that had the "(" category string and this fixed that.

BTW, I was linked here from http://snipplr.com/view/71843/move-the-posts-count-inside-the-link-of-the-archive-and-category-widgets-of-wordpress/