The snippet below will let you have force categories widget to show empty categories in WordPress.
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 9 | <?php add_filter( 'widget_categories_args', 'mytheme_widget_cat_args' ); function mytheme_widget_cat_args($cat_args) { // the default for "hide_empty" = 1, so $cat_args['hide_empty'] = 0; // we can override any other defaults here too return $cat_args; } ?> |
Snippet Source/Credit: WordPress Codex