category display

Is there a way for me to have the category info show, even if there are no products in that category?

Thx for any hep

DJ

/catalog/view/theme/[theme name]/template/product/category.tpl to

Thanks Ryan, but I followed those instructions and nothing happens.... the category description shows in the admin area but not on the live site UNTIL I add products... I would like to not have to add products, only have the sub categories description showing when a customer clicks on it.
What I basically want to do is have the following category structure:
Under Categories -
Fresh on the Farm (parent category)
- eggs (sub category 1 with description only)
- Whats Growing (sub category 2 with description only)
- Fresh Sheet (subcategory 3 with description only)

Any other suggestions?

Upon more searching I found this thread in the forums..... tried the suggested fix and it works fine now......

codecreator wrote:I upgraded to 1.3.2 and applied this modification and discovered a typo in the code from my previous post. So, here is a copy/paste version of the corrected code for v1.3.2:

On or about line 93 of {your_store_directory}/catalog/controller/product/category.php:

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 if ($category_total || $product_total) { 

Modify this line to read:

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 if ($category_total || $product_total || (!empty($this->data['description']))) { 

Hope someone finds this helpful.

Yeah, I'm not sure what I was thinking. The code I posted definitely wasn't going to get the job done.

Glad you found the solution and shared it.