Title: Cannot get cat= shortcode param to work
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Cannot get cat= shortcode param to work

 *  Resolved [simonaustin87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonaustin87/)
 * (@simonaustin87)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-cat-shortcode-param-to-work/)
 * Hi, I feel like such an idiot for asking a question on what should be a simple
   action, but I just cannot get it to work.
 * I’ve got a singular random post box, before it was pulling from all categories,
   now I want to specify by a singular category (called Blog) but what I’m using
   for cat is not working as it’s not displaying anything. Please see below –
 * [arpw limit=”1″ excerpt=”false” excerpt_length=”50″ cat=”Blog”]
 * What am I doing wrong? Anyone know?
 * Thanks
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts-widget/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/advanced-random-posts-widget/)

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 *  Thread Starter [simonaustin87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonaustin87/)
 * (@simonaustin87)
 * [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-cat-shortcode-param-to-work/#post-7382680)
 * Problem resolved. Informed it must be a numerical ID used.

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 * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/)

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 * Last reply from: [simonaustin87](https://wordpress.org/support/users/simonaustin87/)
 * Last activity: [10 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cannot-get-cat-shortcode-param-to-work/#post-7382680)
 * Status: resolved