Title: Can’t Display Empty Sub Categories
Last modified: January 25, 2019

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# Can’t Display Empty Sub Categories

 *  Resolved [inkform](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inkform/)
 * (@inkform)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-display-empty-sub-categories/)
 * Hello, I am using the latest version of everything. Woo 3.5.4 and WP 5.0.3. I
   have a top level category with multiple sub-categories. If those sub-categories
   do not have inventory, they do not show. I have tried the Customizer, that does
   nothing. I have tried the answers in the forums such as adding the following 
   to my child theme, all without success. I am using Virtue Premium as my theme.
   Any help is appreciated.
 * Code tried:
    add_filter( ‘woocommerce_product_subcategories_hide_empty’, ‘hide_empty_categories’,
   10, 1 ); function hide_empty_categories ( $hide_empty ) { $hide_empty = FALSE;//
   You can add other logic here too return $hide_empty; }
 * add_filter( ‘woocommerce_product_subcategories_hide_empty’, ‘__return_false’);
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fcant-display-empty-sub-categories%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Thread Starter [inkform](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inkform/)
 * (@inkform)
 * [7 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-display-empty-sub-categories/#post-11149121)
 * Anyone else experiences this, or have a work-around?
 *  Plugin Support [John Coy a11n](https://wordpress.org/support/users/johndcoy/)
 * (@johndcoy)
 * Automattic Happiness Engineer
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-display-empty-sub-categories/#post-11335438)
 * Hi [@inkform](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inkform/)
 * Thanks for reaching out to us! I edited the shop page under **Appearance > Customize
   > WooCommerce > Product Catalog** and I set it to show categories. I then added
   the same snippet using the [Code Snippets](https://wordpress.org/plugins/code-snippets/)
   plugin:
 * `add_filter( 'woocommerce_product_subcategories_hide_empty', '__return_false');`
 * I now see empty categories on the shop page.
 *  [3 Sons Development](https://wordpress.org/support/users/3sonsdevelopment/)
 * (@3sonsdevelopment)
 * [7 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cant-display-empty-sub-categories/#post-11362901)
 * Hi [@inkform](https://wordpress.org/support/users/inkform/),
 * We haven’t heard back from you in a while, so I’m going to close this thread 
   out. If you still have problems, please feel free to come back and open a new
   topic.
 * Take care

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