Show empty categories in wordpress ???

Hi, i want to show empty categories in my wordpess blog.

I googled a bit and got this code:

<?php wp_list_cats('sort_column=name&hierarchical=1&optioncount=1&hide_empty=0'); ?>

The thing is i tried it and still nothing

Does anybody know how to show empty categories?

Thanks, fuser

 

THe easiest way, without doing any coding is to take a blog post, maybe the first one, and check off all the category boxes that you want to show up, and they will.

Then add to them as you post content in them.

 

Lol i did a test post as a pre-launch so i will do that

thanks!!!

fuser

 

To extend on that idea you can make an "Empty" post. Essentially a post with a punctuation mark or a very short piece of text a message or something similar then assign it to the categories you want to appear. Then as you populate your blog all you have to do is go back and un select your placeholder post.

 

I know this thread is quite old but I too was looking for a solution to this problem. Wordpress has evolved over the ages and updated multiple times, below code works very well for current (wordpress 3.4.5) as well as recent versions.

<?php

function all_cates($args)

{
$args['hide_empty'] = 0;
// you can override any other defaults here too

return $args;

}
add_filter( 'widget_categories_args', 'all_cates' );

?>

You can see it in action on koezine.com. right now it is in development so you might see changes to theme and other things even while you may be browsing the site.

You need to put this code in category.php or function.php in your wordpress theme files (and not in the main wordpress files)

 

We are only on WordPress 3.4