Title: compatability issue?
Last modified: August 21, 2016

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# compatability issue?

 *  Resolved [teajunky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teajunky/)
 * (@teajunky)
 * [12 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatability-issue/)
 * I’m using wordpress 3.8.1 and am unable to get display posts shortcode to work.
   I’d like to know if anyone else is having this issue? Thanks,
 * [http://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](http://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 *  [kerso](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kerso/)
 * (@kerso)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatability-issue/#post-4562808)
 * I have the same problem. Main problem is we use custom templates & themes. But
   the plugin is not well coded, even if it overrides theme the listing sucks.
 * I tried another plugin too, none of them works with Blog Templates. Only working
   with Default Template.
 * Let see, maybe we need to code from scratch, but i can’t understand why these
   simple issue has no solution.
 * We want to be able to categorize the posts with any template or theme. Currently
   it is calling WP_Query in same place with templates, so either plugin or template
   works.. 🙁
 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatability-issue/#post-4562810)
 * No, there’s no known compatibility issues with Display Posts Shortcode and WordPress
   3.8.1.
 * Can you describe the issue you’re having? Have you tried switching to the default
   theme? If that fixes it, you know there’s an issue with your theme.
 *  Thread Starter [teajunky](https://wordpress.org/support/users/teajunky/)
 * (@teajunky)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatability-issue/#post-4562811)
 * My problem was a conflicting tabs plugin which I’m no longer using. It won’t 
   work in the sidebar for me but it’s working fine in the page body.
 *  Plugin Author [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * (@billerickson)
 * [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatability-issue/#post-4562818)
 * WordPress doesn’t render shortcodes in the sidebars by default. But you can make
   shortcodes work by adding this to your theme’s functions.php file:
 * add_filter( ‘widget_text’, ‘do_shortcode’ );

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 * Last reply from: [Bill Erickson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/billerickson/)
 * Last activity: [12 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/compatability-issue/#post-4562818)
 * Status: resolved