Hi there! I'm trying to list all the categories in a blog regardless of whether they have entries or not. The way I found out how to do it is by using the show_empty attribute in the MTCategories tag:
See the result in our Community Guide main page.

The problem with this is that if you click on the link for a category that has no entries, there will be no category archive, and you'll get a "Page Not Found" error. (In fact, the User Manual gives a warning about this very problem: "Note that this is [not] advised if you are including links to your category archive pages, because archive pages are not generated for empty categories. Thus, the archive link for an empty category will be a broken link.")

I was hoping there was a way to prevent the link from showing up if the category archive is empty. I tried to do it by using Brad Choate's MTIfNotEmpty tag to test whether there were entries, and then producing a link if there were, but not producing a link if there weren't (see my post elsewhere), but that approach doesn't seem to work.

Anyone have any suggestions on how else I might go about preventing the links from showing up for empty categories?

Thanks.

See if you like this. It requires PHP though.

I spent the day browsing old threads.  

Thanks Girlie! ... And sorry for the trouble. I'm not familiar with PHP, wasn't sure whether I was set up for it, and it seemed like too much to deal with -- so I decided that I wouldn't show the empty categories after all.

Aha, the new Compare plugin to the rescue!!



Way to go Kevin!!!!

There's an easy way to find out if you're set up for PHP.  Create a file that contains only this line:


Give the file a .php extension (filename.php).  Now, place the file on your webserver and try to access it with a web browser.  If PHP works, you should see a description of the capabilities that were compiled into PHP by your system administrator.