Title: Attach documents to multiple posts Last modified: August 30, 2016 --- # Attach documents to multiple posts * [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christoselli/) * (@christoselli) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/) * Hello Is there any way through document gallery to attach the same document to multiple posts (without re-uploading it to each post) * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/) Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) * Plugin Author [Dan Rossiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrossiter/) * (@danrossiter) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424283) * Hi Chris, * There definitely is a way to include the same document in galleries on multiple posts. Depending on what specifically your use case is, you can use a couple of different methods. * 1. If it is a logical grouping of documents that are all repeated in multiple places then you can use taxonomies to do what you want, as documented on the [Installation tab](https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/installation/)) under the “Categories/Custom Taxonomy Option” header. The categorization of attachments is outside the scope of Document Gallery, but I discuss some plugins that will do this for you [here]([https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-media-files](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/categories-for-media-files)). * 2. If you build your gallery through the “Create Document Gallery” dialog integrated into the Media Manager (shown on the [Screenshots tab](https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/screenshots/)) then you can use any attachments you like in creating your gallery — you’re not limited to just those on the current post. * -Dan * PS: If you’ve found this plugin useful, please take a moment to [rate it](http://wordpress.org/support/view/plugin-reviews/document-gallery#postform). Thanks! 🙂 * Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christoselli/) * (@christoselli) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424300) * Hi Dan Thank you for your reply. What shortcode can I use to enable the plugin to list all the documents in a particular category. I’ve tried category=category- value (the slug of the category). Is that correct? * Plugin Author [Dan Rossiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrossiter/) * (@danrossiter) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424337) * Hi Chris, * Almost correct. This is actually the topic of an enhancement request (using taxon slugs in place of names), but for the moment you’ll want to use the c category name instead of its slug (be sure to use quotes if the name has spaces. * Let me know if that works for you! -Dan * Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christoselli/) * (@christoselli) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424341) * Hi Dan Hmmm… I think I must be missing something. This is the code I’m using:[ dg new_window=”true” fancy=”false” category=”General Topics”] That’s the category name, so what am I doing wrong? That category is listed in the media categories section. Thoughts? * Plugin Author [Dan Rossiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrossiter/) * (@danrossiter) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424342) * Hi Chris, * I just went to verify against my own setup and what you’re using definitely looks correct. I’m using `[dg descriptions=true category="New York Times" images=true]` on one of my galleries. * Do you have logging enabled (Dashboard -> Settings -> Document Gallery -> Advanced tab)? If not, can you try enabling that and viewing the page where you have the gallery setup? * To be honest, I’m a bit stumped. What you are doing *should* be working. I’ll ponder on this a bit… * -Dan * Thread Starter [Chris](https://wordpress.org/support/users/christoselli/) * (@christoselli) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424343) * Yes – very strange. I’ve turned on logging and there are no errors. It’s generating in good time. It was just returning a blank page. I changed it to exactly your code: [dg descriptions=true category=”General topics” images=true] and now I’m getting this result on the page: The taxon value entered, “images”, is not valid. There is nothing in the log that saying there are errors. * Plugin Author [Dan Rossiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrossiter/) * (@danrossiter) * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424346) * A dumb question that has to be asked for the sake of completeness: You have associated all of the attachments you want included with a category called “General Topics” (including correct capitalization of the category)? * My next recommendation would be to uninstall Document Gallery and reinstall. In this circumstance I actually do not believe it will help, but it can’t hurt and it rules out a couple of unlikely issues. * -Dan Viewing 7 replies - 1 through 7 (of 7 total) The topic ‘Attach documents to multiple posts’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://ps.w.org/document-gallery/assets/icon.svg?rev=983329) * [Document Gallery](https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/document-gallery/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/document-gallery/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/document-gallery/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/document-gallery/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/document-gallery/reviews/) * 7 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [Dan Rossiter](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danrossiter/) * Last activity: [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/attach-documents-to-multiple-posts/#post-6424346) * Status: not resolved