This option is already available. Just click on “More Options…”.
If you don’t see the more options link, re-add the widget or try pressing the update button (it can get lost sometimes). This part doesn’t work in WordPress 3.9’s new widgets interface yet, though.
I’m using 3.9 so I guess that’s the problem. Will an update be coming to correct the issue?
Update is coming eventually, keeps getting delayed. It’s only really an issue in the Theme Customizer, where there is no update button for each widget (usually). Pressing “Save” on the old widgets screen usually re-initializes those options so that you can see them (or the show more link); you could always add a new instance of the widget too (they tend to get hidden when re-visiting to edit).
Actually, I think you’re mistaken…
I just checked the source code – the hide empty / show empty option is *not* selectable in the plugin.
Everywhere the hide_empty option is referenced in the code, it’s hardwired to 1. And there’s no code in the widget control panel form to allow this option to be set.
Can you confirm?
You most likely need to update the plugin to the latest version, then. See: http://celloexpressions.com/files/list-custom-taxonomy-widget-options.png.
It may not work when displaying as a dropdown, though, as that’s an entirely different option (which shouldn’t have ever been added, really).
That’s puzzling, I’m on version 3.3 which is apparently the latest. Thoughts?
I’m not trying to use the dropdown option so that’s not a worry.
Are you able to open the “more options” section? See above for cases where it may not show up and workarounds.
Otherwise, try reinstalling the plugin, as it’s probably missing something.
I have reinstalled the plugin from the download link on your site.
I can open the more options section, and it gives me the following options:
Show post counts
Show hierarchy
Order By
Exclude (comma-separated list of ids to exclude)
Only Show Children of (category id)
Display as Dropdown
The Show Empty Terms option in the screenshot you posted is simply not there, either on-screen or in the plugin’s source code.
Are you sure you committed the latest version to the WordPress SVN repository?
By the way many thanks for your continuing assistance.
Sorry, looks like I added it 7 months ago, but haven’t pushed an update since then (due to bugs with the dropdown display option). You should be able to use the “trunk” version of the plugin to get that option, as long as you aren’t using the dropdown display option it should work fine.
See https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/list-custom-taxonomy-widget
OK, using the latest trunk files does the trick, many thanks.
Any chance of creating a new tag so everyone gets the feature?
