Magento: Display products from childcategories if parent category is empty

Question

Hi all,

I have the following categories

Car parts (0) Tires (0) Rims (5)

Now in the product listing obviously the car parts en tires listing returns 0 products. But for the user this is ankward. Is it possible to show child items if a category is empty?

Kind regards

Answer 1

Have you marked the category as an anchor category in the administrative interface? That should allow child categories' products to show up in the parent category listing.

Hope that helps.

Thanks, Joe

Answer 2

I have done this and the parent category shows the count on the backend, but still does not display the products on the frontend...?

Backend: Parent Cat (3) Child Cat1 (2) Child Cat2 (1)