Different layout for main categories

Hello,

If you want to display the subcategories inside the main categories then enable the “Show current category ancestors” from Theme Settings >> Shop >> SIDEBAR & PAGE TITLE.

Also in your second point you asking that you do not want that popup (which is drop down in actual) for that you have to enable the “Show current category ancestors” so in the category page shown that line if there is no sub categories as in the screenshot: https://jmp.sh/e53DOew

While creating a sub category from Products >> Categories. You need to make sure that you select a Parent category for this child.

You are using an older version of theme and outdated theme requires plugins. Kindly also update your theme as well as plugins.

Best Regards.

Most Welcome,

In my screenshot that I provided to you displaying a message that “No product categories exist.” not only the products. It’s about the product categories.

If the product category does not have any products inside it then it does not shown any message it just simply shown the empty category page as in the screenshot: https://jmp.sh/nMbE70G

Also by default the empty product category does not hidden. But you can hide the categories that have no products. Try to paste the below code in funtions.php:

function woodmart_product_categories_nav() {
		global $wp_query, $post;
		$show_subcategories = woodmart_get_opt( 'shop_categories_ancestors' );
		$show_categories_neighbors = woodmart_get_opt( 'show_categories_neighbors' );
		$list_args = array(  
			'taxonomy' => 'product_cat', 
			'hide_empty' => true 
		);
		// Menu Order

		$list_args['menu_order'] = false;
		$list_args['menu_order'] = 'asc';

		// Setup Current Category

		$current_cat   = false;
		$cat_ancestors = array();

		if ( is_tax( 'product_cat' ) ) {

			$current_cat   = $wp_query->queried_object;
			$cat_ancestors = get_ancestors( $current_cat->term_id, 'product_cat' );
		}

		$list_args['depth']            = 5;
		$list_args['child_of']         = 0;
		$list_args['title_li']         = '';
		$list_args['hierarchical']     = 1;
		$list_args['show_count']       = woodmart_get_opt( 'shop_products_count' );
		$list_args['walker'] = new WOODMART_Walker_Category();

		$class = ( woodmart_get_opt( 'shop_products_count' ) ) ? 'has-product-count' : 'hasno-product-count';

		$shop_link = get_post_type_archive_link( 'product' );

		include_once( WC()->plugin_path() . '/includes/walkers/class-product-cat-list-walker.php' );
		
		if( is_object( $current_cat ) && !get_term_children( $current_cat->term_id, 'product_cat' ) && $show_subcategories && !$show_categories_neighbors ) return;
		
		echo '<div class="woodmart-show-categories"><a href="#">' . esc_html__('Categories', 'woodmart') . '</a></div>';

		echo '<ul class="woodmart-product-categories ' . esc_attr( $class ). '">';
		
		echo '<li class="cat-link shop-all-link"><div class="category-nav-link"><a href="' . esc_url( $shop_link ) . '">
				<span class="category-summary">
					<span class="category-name">' . esc_html__('All', 'woodmart') . '</span>
					<span class="category-products-count">
						<span class="cat-count-label">' . esc_html__('products', 'woodmart') . '</span>
					</span>
				</span>
		</a></div></li>';

		if( $show_subcategories ) {
			woodmart_show_category_ancestors();
		} else {
			wp_list_categories( $list_args );
		}
	echo '</ul>';
}

Best Regards.

Hello,

With the theme options we can not hide the empty product categories.

I used the same code in my site funtions.php and it works just fine:

Screenshot before hiding the empty categories: https://jmp.sh/DUjI4QR

Screenshot after hiding: https://jmp.sh/Ger8vFn

Best Regards.

I’m trying to remove it too https://prnt.sc/pjpfmq

Hello,

@aliyilmaz I appreciate your help and thank you for sharing the solution that might help the others. But it’s not relevant to this topic.

@Laurence27220 I have provided you the CSS code to hide the empty categories from the Shop Page Title banner. Not from the categories menu. You need to check my screenshots that I have provided as before and after hiding those categories.

And it is not possible to remove the empty categories from that menu which is in the header. You can only remove the empty categories manually from the Appearance >> Menus.

Best Regards.