Title: Selecting categories without posts
Last modified: December 16, 2016

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# Selecting categories without posts

 *  [rednas](https://wordpress.org/support/users/doppiej/)
 * (@doppiej)
 * [9 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/selecting-categories-without-posts/)
 * Hello,
 * I would like to see the option to select a category without having posts. At 
   the first set up of the website there are no posts in all categories. The website
   would show something like: there are currently no posts. And when someone posts
   something in the category it would show up.
    Would this be possible?
 * Thanks!

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