Quote Originally Posted by mikeel100 View Post
Why? What is the point of showing empty categories? There are already too many "configurable options" in the admin area...just sayin'
The absence of a product in a category doesn't mean that the category (and with modification all of the parent categories) is useless or doesn't provide value for the store. While generally not suggested to have a "coming soon" type display of information, I'm sure that over the years that store owners have found creative ways to use categories that do not have products for various things. As well, as pointed out the offered code only addresses the last category not having products. It doesn't address all categories between the top and that last categoy. Not that it couldn't be modified to do so, but even that additional code would be recommended to be an admin configurable option.