How to Show Empty Categories !!?

  • Resolved senaia

    (@senaia)


    17 years, 6 months ago

    Hello

    I have searched for this but no luck. Im new here and this is my first serios blog so I need to get everything right before launching it.

    Empty Categories don’t show up in the sidebar, how to change this ?

    What file do I need to modify and with what code ?

    Edit: Also, how to show categories according to ID’s and not titles ??

    Thank You.

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  • You’ll need the hide_empty parameter for the template tag, wp_list_categories.

    An example of this is the WordPress Default 1.6 Theme where wp-content/themes/default/sidebar has this code

    <?php wp_list_categories('show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>

    you would change to this code:

    <?php wp_list_categories('hide_empty=0&show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>'); ?>

    Also see:
    Stepping into Templates
    Stepping into Template Tags
    Template Hierarchy

    Thread Starter senaia

    (@senaia)

    Thanks a million. Its working.

    Do you happen to know how to have categories listed in the sidebar according to ID’s ??

    Thank You.

    it does that by default.

    He provided several links that explain all of that for you.

    Thread Starter senaia

    (@senaia)

    I did not notice the links he provided, just grapped the code and ran to try it ??

    To sort categories by id and show empty one’s at the same time:

    <?php wp_list_categories(‘orderby=id&hide_empty=0&show_count=1&title_li=<h2>Categories</h2>’); ?>

    Thank You ??

    Excellent thread, helped me out while i was searching for the same on other blogs.

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