Hi,

I am trying to use the ‘hide empty terms’ option when adding a filter for a custom taxonomy.

The filter is not correctly hiding the terms if they have no results against them.

If you navigate to this link (
https://www.bathcollege.ac.uk/course-search/?_sft_course_type=part-time-love2learn) you will see that in the dropdown for ‘Subject’, ‘Access to HE’ appears even though it has no results when chosen.

I can see that ‘hide empty terms’ is set as when I print the $args variable on line 252 of taxonomy.php I get the following…

Array ( [sf_name] => _sft_course_type [sfid] => 734 [taxonomy] => course_type [hierarchical] => [child_of] => 0 [echo] => [hide_if_empty] => [hide_empty] => 1 [show_option_none] => [show_count] => [show_option_all] => [show_option_all_sf] => All [show_default_option_sf] => [show_count_format_sf] => html [elem_attr] => [include] => [title_li] => [defaults] => ) 111111Array ( [sf_name] => _sft_course_subject [sfid] => 734 [taxonomy] => course_subject [hierarchical] => 1 [child_of] => 0 [echo] => [hide_if_empty] => [hide_empty] => 1 [show_option_none] => [show_count] => 1 [show_option_all] => [show_option_all_sf] => All [show_default_option_sf] => [show_count_format_sf] => html [elem_attr] => [include] => [title_li] => [defaults] => )

I can see from this, that ‘hide_if_empty’ is not set, but I don’t think changing this helps, and I can’t see where it would be controlled in the plugin options.

Do you have any idea what could be causing these terms to show?

Thanks for your help!

Matt