woocommerce offtopic - Hide product categories and taxonomy terms in menu if empty

I've been researching this and had no luck so far.

I have a WooCommerce store with a main menu showing product categories (product_cat) and brands (yith_product_brand) which is a custom taxonomy.

I want to hide categories and brands if they are empty. Do you know a way to achieve this, either by using a plugin or adding a function/filter to the functions.php file? If so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

I've been researching this and had no luck so far.

I have a WooCommerce store with a main menu showing product categories (product_cat) and brands (yith_product_brand) which is a custom taxonomy.

I want to hide categories and brands if they are empty. Do you know a way to achieve this, either by using a plugin or adding a function/filter to the functions.php file? If so any help would be much appreciated.

Thanks in advance.

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• woocommerce-offtopic
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• taxonomy
• sub-menu

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Not sure about the custom taxonomy, however I have used this code before to remove empty categories. You can add it to functions.php.

add_filter( 'wp_get_nav_menu_items', 'nav_remove_empty_category_menu_item', 10, 3 );
function nav_remove_empty_category_menu_item ( $items, $menu, $args ) {
    global $wpdb;
    $nopost = $wpdb->get_col( "SELECT term_taxonomy_id FROM $wpdb->term_taxonomy WHERE count = 0" );
    foreach ( $items as $key => $item ) {
        if ( ( 'taxonomy' == $item->type ) && ( in_array( $item->object_id, $nopost ) ) ) {
            unset( $items[$key] );
        }
    }
    return $items;
}

function remove_empty_category_from_menu_item( $items, $menu, $args ) {
    
    // Get all categories that have products
    $categories_with_products = get_categories( array(
        'taxonomy'     => 'product_cat',
        'hide_empty'   => true,
        'hierarchical' => true,
    ) );

    // Extract category IDs and add them to $categories_to_keep array
    foreach ( $categories_with_products as $category ) {
        $categories_to_keep[] = $category->term_id;
    }
    
    // Loop through each menu item
    foreach ( $items as $key => $item ) {
        
        // Check if the menu item is of type 'taxonomy' and object is 'product_cat'
        if ( 'taxonomy' == $item->type && 'product_cat' == $item->object ) {
            
            // If the menu item's object_id is not in $categories_to_keep array, remove it
            if (!in_array( $item->object_id, $categories_to_keep ) ) {
                // unset frome the menu
                unset( $items[$key] );
            }
            
        }
        
    }
    
    return $items;

}
add_filter( 'wp_get_nav_menu_items', 'remove_empty_category_from_menu_item', 10, 3 );