Magento2: Hide Empty Categories

Installation

composer require hgati/module-hide-empty-categories:dev-master
bin/magento setup:upgrade

Enable / Deisable by Magento CLI Commnad

cd /var/www/magento
# Enable
bin/magento config:set hgati_hide_empty_categories/general/enable 1
# Disable (defalt value is disabled)
bin/magento config:set hgati_hide_empty_categories/general/enable 0

• Performance drastically deteriorates when dealing with a large number, around 400, of categories because each category needs to be processed individually in a loop.