• John Huebner

• May 6, 2021 at 6:23 am

The problem is that the repeater on the category still has rows. Deleting a post, category, or whatever might be in a repeater row will not remove that row from the repeater.

Sorry, because of the way you are doing this I cannot give you code. I can only give you an idea.

You need to loop over the first repeater and detect if any output is created, if not then do the second repeater.

Basic example

$output_created = false;
if (have_rows('repeater')) {
  while (have_rows('repeater')) {
    the_row();
    // if you generate any content here
    $output_created = true;
    
  }
}
if (!$output_created) {
   // noting created in the first loop
   // do the other repeater
}