If anyone here is very familiar with wordpress, perhaps you could answer my question. I've searched online, but I suppose the solution to my problem would be writing of a php script, I am not familiar with php at all.

Anyways, I've got a wordpress blog and I want to make it more organized. My blog is music based, so I created categories as genres to provide users easy navigation. What I would like to do now, is to set a few selected Tags as subcategories. I could do this using HTML, but I would have to update the post count next to the Categories every time I make a new post! I looked online, but I could not find a plug or "hack" or any type of solution.

Here is a visualized look of what I would like:

Category 1 (17)
#Tag1
Category 2 (2)
Category 3 (23)
#Tag2
#Tag3

Any resourceful information is highly appreciated. Thank you in advance!

http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/post-categories/

Thanks, but I mastered the making of simple categories. I'm looking for a way to create sub-categories with tags.

I realise I'm a little late to this thread, but why not just use child categories? What you are describing is extremely over-complicated!

I agree. Sub-categories is the way to go.