Show only populated categories in Menu

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  • August 27, 2019 at 9:44 am #505105

    vivek
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    I have a menu with CPT>Categories, and i am using the CPT Categories to show the categories (not individual custom links), which when addded to menu, shows each category

    However, while I have created many cateogies, some of these are for future use, so how can i show only those categories which have at least one published listing in them, in the menu, and hide the rest?

    Any suggestions please?

    thanks, Vivek

    August 27, 2019 at 12:58 pm #505133

    Guust
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    I don’t really understand … there is no option to add CPT categories to the menu, except by selecting all of them or the ones you want.
    Can you tell us step by step what you did, maybe with images or links?
    Thanks

    August 27, 2019 at 2:01 pm #505152

    vivek
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    Sorry, Guust – i was not clear in my earlier message.

    I can select one or as many as I want, but i have selected all of them as categories (attaching screenshot) in Appearence>Menus.

    I meant to say that i have not added individual custom links with category URLs, but used the CPT categories ‘widgets’ to add them to the menu.

    As i have about 100 categories and will be adding listings regularly (and even users will add listings) , so it will be difficult to manually keep track which categories are populated at any time or not. To start with maybe only half the cateogories may have a listing, so there will be many empty categories- hence i wanted to ‘hide’ these in the menu, and then they show automatically when the first listing is published.

    thanks, Vivek

    August 27, 2019 at 5:51 pm #505181

    Paolo
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    This would require the code to query each category to see if empty before showing the link, it’d slow down page loading by a lot, especially if you have that many categories.

    Better to either avoid creating empty categories and add the category only once at least one listing is created, or do as Guust suggested.

    Thanks

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