Hide empty categories
Description
Highlights
About the Extension
Automatically hide empty categories – without deactivating them.
Empty categories look unprofessional and clutter your navigation. This plugin removes them from the menu automatically – yet the categories stay active and therefore remain in your sitemap and search index. This prevents temporarily empty categories from being dropped from the index.
Your benefits
- Clean navigation – empty categories disappear from the menu
- SEO-safe – categories stay active and in the sitemap
- Install, activate, done – no further configuration required
- Full control – configurable per category via backend checkboxes
- Works with most menu plugins from other vendors and in the mobile menu
How it works
After activation, a cron job checks your category tree every 2 hours and hides empty categories. Optionally, categories can also be hidden when all of their products are out of stock. Dynamic product groups are taken into account.
Fine-grained control per category
Open a category in the admin and tick the relevant box under „Hidden Categories“:
- Show if empty – the category stays visible anyway
- Ignore everything below – protects e.g. content pages underneath
- Always hide – the category is always removed
Note: Since Shopware does not show custom fields in tree views, switch to the category view once to set these options.
Documentation
Detailed instructions and tips are available at docs.web-labels.de
A joint project by BuildIT Consulting & Web Labels Webdesign GmbH.
Details
- Available: English, German
- Latest update: 16 June 2026
- Publication date: 17 December 2021
- Version: 3.0.1
- Category: Menu + category
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Ich kann das Modul nur jedem empfehlen. Wir hoffen mal das es das Modul noch lange gibt und man nicht zu lange auf die Version Freigaben warten muss! *****
About the Extension Partner
Web Labels Webdesign GmbH
Partner Status
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Shopware
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Shopware
Extension Partner
Details
- Ø-Rating: 4.6
- Partner since: 2016
- Extensions: 54
- Certifications: 4
Support
- Based in: Germany
- Speaks: German, English
- Response time: Very quickly