[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #41351: Searching for a category returns nothing if category is empty
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Mon Jul 17 21:53:57 UTC 2017
#41351: Searching for a category returns nothing if category is empty
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Reporter: jackjohansson | Owner:
Type: defect (bug) | Status: new
Priority: normal | Milestone: Awaiting Review
Component: Menus | Version: 4.8
Severity: normal | Keywords:
Focuses: administration |
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Hi,
In the navigation menu creation page, when you are trying to add a
category to the menu, if the category is empty, it won't show up in the
search results. However, if the category itself is empty but has a child
that is not empty, it will still be shown.
I have a blog with over 500 categories, and I'm trying to add some of them
to the menu but they have no posts yet. Navigating through category list
is going to take time, and is also frustrating.
Now I've tracked down the issue to `/wp-admin/includes/nav-menu.php`, (
starting at line 588 ) but can't find a filter or hook to do so.
This line (109) seems to be responsible for doing the search:
{{{
$terms = get_terms( $matches[2], array(
'name__like' => $query,
'number' => 10,
));
}}}
According to the documentations, this function accepts an argument for
showing empty terms 'hide_empty' => false, but I can't see such option in
this part of core's code. I've added this option to the core (temporarily)
to see if it solves the issue, and it does.
The other `get_term()` functions withing this template file mostly use
`'hide_empty' => false` so I'm not sure either this one was overlooked or
not, I tagged this as a bug though.
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Ticket URL: <https://core.trac.wordpress.org/ticket/41351>
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