Title: CQS subcategory problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# CQS subcategory problem

 *  [lisavollrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisavollrath/)
 * (@lisavollrath)
 * [17 years, 12 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cqs-subcategory-problem/)
 * I’m having sort of a strange problem with Custom Query String Reloaded. I’m using
   WP 2.5.1, and CQS 2.9.
 * Because I’m using WP more as a content management tool rather than a blog, I 
   have is_category Show -1 posts per page, ordered by date ASC
 * I do have a blog category, set as cat_blog Show 5 posts per page, ordered by 
   date DESC, and it’s working great.
 * I also have a subcategory, set as cat_mim Show 5 posts per page, ordered by date
   DESC, and it seems not to be displaying according to CQS. As near as I can tell,
   it’s displaying as my default categories do—Show -1 posts per page, ordered by
   date ASC.
 * I’ve tried moving it up to a category rather than a subcategory, and that corrects
   the problem. However, when I move my blog category down and make it a subcategory,
   it displays properly—so, the problem isn’t that CQS doesn’t respond to subcategories.
   It seems just the one subcategory isn’t responding.
 * Since cat_mim has a custom template, right now I’m forcing the posts to display
   DESC by adding a query—but that doesn’t solve only wanting five posts per page
   to display. Since this is a weekly challenge category, it has the potential to
   be quite long, so the post limitaion is kind of important.
 * I just know this is something simple I’ve overlooked. I’m at that crispy point
   where I just can’t see it, so any help would be greatly appreciated.

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 *  Thread Starter [lisavollrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisavollrath/)
 * (@lisavollrath)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cqs-subcategory-problem/#post-793639)
 * This problem is still unresolved, so any help would be greatly appreciated.
 *  Thread Starter [lisavollrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisavollrath/)
 * (@lisavollrath)
 * [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cqs-subcategory-problem/#post-793671)
 * This problem is still unresolved.

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 * [custom query string](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/custom-query-string/)
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 * Last reply from: [lisavollrath](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lisavollrath/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/cqs-subcategory-problem/#post-793671)
 * Status: not resolved

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