Currently the forum landing page will show that new posts have been made inside a category, but it doesn't tell you how many posts/threads. 

Does anyone know a way in which to pull through the number of threads within that category? This is something we would be happy to pay a freelancer to do if it requires anything more than just pulling through variables.

Something like this:

 

I think it's a part of the @TheJackal84 mod:

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Show total stats (This will calculate the overall total of topics and posts in each category and place the total amount in the category header)