To achieve our desired result, we’ll need to write our own code to list categories and then display it using shortcode.įor this tutorial, you’ll need to add some code to your WordPress website. This makes it a bit difficult to change the parameters used by the categories block to list categories. WordPress has started using the new widget blocks replacing the old classic widgets. In this guide, we will show you how to easily hide or display empty categories in WordPress. Similarly, some websites may want to hide certain categories that don’t have any posts while still showing other empty categories. However, some website owners may still need to show empty categories on their WordPress blog.įor instance, if they are working on a custom theme design or if they simply want their users to see the empty categories and fill them with user-generated content. For instance, at WPBeginner we have different categories that cover the main sections of our overall content.īy default, WordPress does not show empty categories in category widgets and category lists. Many websites use categories to create different sections for their WordPress website. While tags are used for specific topics of an article, categories are used in a much broader sense. WordPress comes with two default taxonomies, categories and tags. Why Hide or Display Empty Categories in WordPress In this article, we will show easy ways to hide or display a category only if it has posts in WordPress. However, sometimes you may want to show them even when they have no content. ![]() The beetlets in the pot rejuvenated, the greens growing shiny and luxurious again.Do you want to display or hide a category depending on whether it has posts in WordPress?īy default, WordPress does not display empty categories. I could see the tops of the roots poking out of the dirt and expanding in size. For kicks, I re-planted two beetlets in loose, organic potting soil in a pot to see what would happen. So I left those - five whole beets-to-be - to grow for another month. They’d reached about an inch in diameter and seemed firmly rooted in the ground. Most of them lost, barely growing into 1/4-inch-diameter beetlets.Ī few, however, established dominance. Each cell held three to four beet seedlings, which for nearly two months had jockeyed for position in the soil. But not knowing what a beet plant looks like, I thought that the six-pack I’d purchased had already been thinned, such that each cell in the seedling tray held one tiny beet plant. ![]() Now, I’d read that you need to thin beet seedlings so they don’t crowd each other underground and can grow into the spheres they are meant to be. This is what happens when you’ve never grown vegetables and don’t know what beet plants look like:īeetlet in sad, sterile lighting - appropriate, no? I was a bit worried about the roots’ ability to push their way through the compacted clay soil and form properly, but the greens were vivacious and added a sweet, earthy note to our salads when I harvested a few here and there, so I figured that something was going right.Īt the end of June, with a combined sense of joyous anticipation and trepidation, I dug them up. I planted them in our clay soil and carefully tended them for the 55 days it was supposed to take for them to reach maturity. I absolutely adore beets, so I was excited to give them a try. I’d read that the leaves were tasty when young and that the roots would be candy-striped and sweet. ![]() The burgundy leaves caught my eye at the garden center, so I snapped them up. In early May, I planted a six-pack of bull’s blood beet seedlings. I know the decision will go through a lengthy process of appeals, but for now, it’s a win toward equal rights for all in our country and allowing every individual to make such a private decision for her- or himself. ![]() Although this has nothing to do with gardening or food, since today’s post is about triumph and yesterday’s was about understanding - and ultimately, being - who you really are, I had to mention the decision by a federal judge in San Francisco yesterday that gays and lesbians have a constitutional right to marry, striking down Proposition 8, the voter-approved ballot measure that banned same-sex unions in California.
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