[Steven Zahm]

@ Robby

I do have an advanced tutorial on how to accomplish this here:

http://connections-pro.com/2015/04/23/quicktip-show-no-entries-until-user-performs-a-search/

This works great with templates that have a drop down category filter. Not 100% certain it’ll work for the category list in the widget pack. It should, but I never tested it.

Hope this helps, let me know.