Jekyll & Liquid: Output category list with post count?

Question

I'm somehow stuck and don't find the right way to do it.

I want to output a category list with the number of posts in each categorie.

I got this far: https://paste.xinu.at/dOLtod/

but I never managed to get the real count. I tried so many ways and nothing worked, for example going through each post and checked on every category if it equals {{ category | first }}.

Here is the code without the count:

<ul class="dropdown-menu">
    {% for category in site.categories %}
        <li class="camelize_me">
            <a href="/tags/{{category | first}}/">
                {{category | first }}
                <span class="badge">
                <!-- Post count here -->
                </span>
            </a>
        </li>
    {% endfor %} 
</ul>

Has anyone an idea to get this done?

Answer 1

I have written a code snippet that not only shows post count in each category, but also navigates to the posts of a specific category which got clicked. I hope you find it helpful:

<ul class="tag-box inline">
{% assign tags_list = site.categories %}  
  {% if tags_list.first[0] == null %}
    {% for tag in tags_list %} 
      <li><a href="#{{ tag }}">{{ tag | capitalize }} <span>{{ site.tags[tag].size }}</span></a></li>
    {% endfor %}
  {% else %}
    {% for tag in tags_list %} 
      <li><a href="#{{ tag[0] }}">{{ tag[0] | capitalize }} <span>{{ tag[1].size }}</span></a></li>
    {% endfor %}
  {% endif %}
{% assign tags_list = nil %}
</ul>

{% for tag in site.categories %} 
  <h2 id="{{ tag[0] }}">{{ tag[0] | capitalize }}</h2>
  <ul class="post-list">
    {% assign pages_list = tag[1] %}  
    {% for post in pages_list %}
      {% if post.title != null %}
      {% if group == null or group == post.group %}
      <li><a href="{{ site.url }}{{ post.url }}">{{ post.title }}<span class="entry-date"><time datetime="{{ post.date | date_to_xmlschema }}" itemprop="datePublished">{{ post.date | date: "%B %d, %Y" }}</time></a></li>
      {% endif %}
      {% endif %}
    {% endfor %}
    {% assign pages_list = nil %}
    {% assign group = nil %}
  </ul>
{% endfor %}