Removing "There are no products to list in this category" from cateogry page

[techiegirl]

That's correct

Considering you only have one empty category to deal with that solution should work just fine.

To me it makes no sense to have empty categories at all. If they are empty they can be disabled via admin until they are needed.

It's like a B&M shop with empty departments - nothing to buy or to browse so why make them accessible to the public?

Thanks for the help. I guess I may have been overcomplicating what I was trying to accomplish.

Removing it from the index.php file did the job.