Title: List empty sub-categories
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# List empty sub-categories

 *  [Marcin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcinkopec/)
 * (@marcinkopec)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-empty-categories/)
 * Hi,
    before I wrote this I checked different topics however I did’t find the 
   answer. I have to list categories even if they are empty. I use this code
 *     ```
       $args = array('hide_empty'=>0, 'child_of' => 2,'pad_counts' => true);
       $categories = get_categories( $args );
   
       ?>
       <div class="mk_hidden_menu">
       <ul>
       <?php
       foreach($categories as $category)
       {
       echo '<li class="mk_second_navigation_block"><a class="mk_second_navigation_a" href="' . get_category_link( $category->term_id ) . '" title="' . sprintf( __( "View all posts in %s" ), $category->name ) . '" ' . '>' . $category->name.'</a> </li> ';
       }
       ?>
       </ul>
       </div>
       ```
   
 * It list sub-categories name only if there are not empty. Option ‘hide_empty’=
   >0 doesn’t change anything I read documentation and similar topics. For most 
   of ‘us’ ‘hide_empty’=>0 solve it, but not this time
    Any help?

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 * [categories](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/categories/)
 * [display](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/display/)
 * [empty](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/empty/)
 * [list](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/list/)

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 * Last reply from: [Marcin](https://wordpress.org/support/users/marcinkopec/)
 * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/list-empty-categories/)
 * Status: not resolved

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