Hey,
Upgrade (step 1) the posts, by putting a "user info" icon in the top right and making it so it toggles the user info.
The user info icon has a badge which shows the number of posts. I will have to dig around in the code more to get the total posts thanks and other badges working; but this is the general idea:
There is too much padding or margin (empty) between the top of the post and the user avatar and icon area; but since I am planning to redo all this code, table-to-divs, I will fix this when I do the rewrite.