How to list categories and subcategories in WordPress

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KillerFish picture KillerFish · Nov 18, 2010 · Viewed 9.7k times · Source

How to display all CATEGORIES and SUB-CATEGORIES in wordpress if a category having 0 posts also. I tried but it is displaying categories which are having at least 1 post in a category . I want to display categories which are having 0 posts also.

Thank You

Answer

Vincent Mimoun-Prat picture Vincent Mimoun-Prat · Nov 18, 2010

See the get_categories function, there is a parameter called "hide_empty". For instance:

<?php $cats = get_categories('hide_empty=0'); ?>

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