Show categories only (no products)

[Paul Anson]

Hi all

I want to display just categories without any products shown until a customer comes to the final category that has products in it. How do I stop the products being shown ? I can do this in the top level category by use of the menu calling just the category but as soon as a customer selects a child category some products are shown. I have set Featured/Top Ten/Recent/Latest all to zero.

I am using the categories to drill down so only the final child categories have any products attached to them (if that makes sense !).

I am sure this must have been asked before and I apologise if it comes up all the time - I have tried searching but cannot find out how.

Many thanks

[inpixelated!]

On the site I was working on we ended up commenting out the "offending" section of the template index.php code, but I would love to know if there is a "better", more acceptable, or more easily maintainable method!

[jenkinhill]

For drilling through categories I would normally suggest http://breakdesigns.net/extensions/custom-filters .

You can use template overrides, with category assigned templates, one without the product display code for the cats with no products, and normal code for the final cat.