The articles count module (as the name suggests), counts the articles in your Joomla categories, and displays them in a list with a link to the category.
The module comes with several configurable options, such as:-
- choose whether to display blank categories
- choose whether to count no access categories and articles
- choose whether to count unpublished articles
- choose whether to display cumulative totals of articles in descendant categories
- pick exactly which categories to display
Optionally the module can use a collapsible tree to show the category structure, as shown below:-
Articles Count
Categories
Articles (13)
How-To (31)
Documentation (28)
However, if you do not want this behaviour you can have a simple list of categories:-
