Aug 17, 2013
kalpesh

Magento delete empty categories and sub-categories

Remove all empty categories and sub-categories in Magento. When there are empty categories, the website shows empty page in those categories in frontend. Create a file in the magento root, I will name it rmvEmptyCats.php, with following code:

require "app/Mage.php";
umask(0);
Mage::app();

$categoryCollection = Mage::getModel('catalog/category')->getCollection()
    ->addFieldToFilter('level', array('gteq' => 2)); //greater than root category id

foreach($categoryCollection as $category) {
    if ($category->getProductCount() === 0) {
        $category->delete();
    }
}

echo 'Empty Categories Deleted!';

Now you can easily run it by navigating to http://loca.lho.st/rmvEmptyCats.php and wait for the message Empty Categories Deleted!

Note that this is going to DELETE those categories with zero product count.

4 Comments

  • Hi,

    I copied the above code, and created an empty php file in notepad and renamed it to what you have – rmvEmptyCats.php

    Uploaded it to my root, went to my host and nothing happens – blank page

    Please advise.

    Thanks

  • Same here!

  • Mage::register(‘isSecureArea’, true);

    add above code to line No. 4, otherwise it will throws exception “Cannot complete this operation from non-admin area.”

    • Hi Priyank,

      I’m getting a 500 error. I’ve added your code to line 4 but it’s still throwing the error:

      Got error ‘PHP message: PHP Fatal error: Uncaught exception ‘Mage_Core_Exception’ with message ‘Cannot complete this operation from non-admin area.’

      Any ideas why?

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