ezCount Plugin

One of the component of this plugin doesn't work at this 2.4 svn revision. The error is no such database table wp_categories. It's very simple like this

$s = "SELECT COUNT(*) FROM $wpdb->categories";
return $wpdb->get_var($s);


This works for many other things such as comments and pingback etc, don't know why I get database prefix 'wp_' added to 'categories' table. Also I don't see anything new from Codex here for this.

As of now that function of this plugin has been taken away, search goes on!