Title: Hide empty categories
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Hide empty categories

 *  Resolved [lpickerill82](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lpickerill82/)
 * (@lpickerill82)
 * [13 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-categories/)
 * The show empty categories is unchecked but still shows the categories in the 
   drop down.
 * Thanks
 * [http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dropdown-menu-widget/](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/dropdown-menu-widget/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Metin Saylan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/mattsay/)
 * (@mattsay)
 * [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-categories/#post-3219946)
 * Are you using a custom menu? This option only works in automatically generated
   category menus.
 * I checked it with 1.9.1 version and it seems fine on my side.
 * If you are not going to use a category, you may consider deleting it.

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 * Last activity: [13 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/hide-empty-categories/#post-3219946)
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