Title: Hide empty category from menu
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Hide empty category from menu

 *  [Alfred Degens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alfred-degens/)
 * (@alfred-degens)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-category-from-menu/)
 * Hi,
 * I made a lot of empty categories which will be filled later.
    I added the empty
   categories in the “menu” in the Back-End admin. The menu works well in the Front-
   End but….
 * Because the most categories are still empty I wonder if there is a way to hide
   the empty categories from the Front-End?
 * I would like my customers to give them only “Editor” rights so they don’t see
   the “theme options MENU” in the wp-admin. I don’t want to give them the rights
   to change the menu.
 * Is it possible to exclude empty categories in the menu?
 * Thanks in advance,
    Alfred

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 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-category-from-menu/#post-1682592)
 * [http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_categories](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_list_categories)
 *  Thread Starter [Alfred Degens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alfred-degens/)
 * (@alfred-degens)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-category-from-menu/#post-1682614)
 * Hi esmi,
 * Thank you, I think I know how to do this for a category (hide_empty=1)
 * But I need it for the new WordPress 3 feature ([http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel](http://codex.wordpress.org/Appearance_Menus_SubPanel)).
 * So I have added the empty categories in this subPanel and would like them only
   to show in the Site (front-end) when there is post in a category.
 * I don’t know in which php file to write the hide_empty code.
 * Can you or someone help me with this? Or tell me if it is possible
 * Thanks again,
    Alfred
 *  [esmi](https://wordpress.org/support/users/esmi/)
 * (@esmi)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-category-from-menu/#post-1682616)
 * If you’ve added a link for a category to a custom menu, you can’t then dynamically
   hide it “on empty”. Just don’t add these links to your custom menus(s) unless
   you have at least 1 post in the relevant category.
 *  Thread Starter [Alfred Degens](https://wordpress.org/support/users/alfred-degens/)
 * (@alfred-degens)
 * [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-category-from-menu/#post-1682724)
 * Hi Esmi,
 * Thank you. That’s a pitty.
 * I had hoped that I didn’t have to give my client a “Admin” role because that 
   is the only way to add or remove menu-items.
    Because this way my client has 
   too much admin rights and i don’t want my client to be able to update a plugin
   or install an update for wordrpress. It would be nice when empty categories (
   by default not showing when they have no post) also don’t show up when empty 
   in the menu.
 * But thanks for your replay,
    Alfred

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 * [empty category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/empty-category/)
 * [menu](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/menu/)

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 * Last activity: [15 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-category-from-menu/#post-1682724)
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