Title: Problem building the proper shortcode Last modified: January 15, 2022 --- # Problem building the proper shortcode * Resolved [neubrech07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neubrech07/) * (@neubrech07) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/) * I’m just desperate trying to get the right shortcode for the thing I want to do. I want to create a list that lists all pages marked in the category as “glossar”. I built this shortcode: [mctagmap responsive=”yes” width=”150px” columns=”2″ show_pages=”yes” from_category=”glossar”]. But unfortunately the system shows all the pages I’ve ever created. Has anyone an idea what’s wrong? * Thanks, Andreas. * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Fproblem-building-the-proper-shortcode%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US) to see the link]_ Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) * Plugin Author [tugbucket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tugbucket/) * (@tugbucket) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15256208) * Well that’s because from_category for pages didn’t exist. I updated to v17.0.19. Please update to that and let me know if it works now. * Thanks! * Thread Starter [neubrech07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neubrech07/) * (@neubrech07) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15256404) * Thanks for your help. I update to v17.0.19, but unfortunately the system still says: “Sorry, but no tags were found”. * Plugin Author [tugbucket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tugbucket/) * (@tugbucket) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15256465) * [@neubrech07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neubrech07/) hmmm… * Can you provide a link to the actual page you are using the shortcode on so I can look? If you have to, set up a test page please. * How are you telling WordPress to add categories to pages. I ask as that is not an out of the box option for pages. * Thread Starter [neubrech07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neubrech07/) * (@neubrech07) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15258141) * Of course you can have a link: [https://www.andreas-neubrech.de/glossar-test/](https://www.andreas-neubrech.de/glossar-test/) * For creating categories and tags to pages I first used the plugin “Create And Assign Categories For Pages” and now I’m using “Pages with category and tag”. I want to work with pages only because the posts at my theme look a little different to pages and I don’t want to have two diffent layouts at my website. So far the categories of the pages worked fine. * Plugin Author [tugbucket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tugbucket/) * (@tugbucket) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15260644) * Interesting, If you are seeing the “sorry no tags….” message, then it’s working“ properly” and looking at your page, seems like everything is in order. * Would you be willing to make me a temporary login using: [https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/temporary-login-without-password/) and sending the link to [alan@tugbucket.net](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/alan@tugbucket.net?output_format=md) so I can look to see if I see anything different than my local? * Plugin Author [tugbucket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tugbucket/) * (@tugbucket) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15261302) * [https://mctagmap.tugbucket.net/pages-with-category/](https://mctagmap.tugbucket.net/pages-with-category/) * I have a sample test page up on the plugin doc site. * Thread Starter [neubrech07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neubrech07/) * (@neubrech07) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15261471) * Thank you for helping that much. I’ve found the mistake why the shortcode didn’t work. And it’s ashame. In the shortcode which didn’t work I used the wrong quotes. You can’t hardly see that. It was a coincidence that I’d find that little thing. But now everything is fine. * Plugin Author [tugbucket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tugbucket/) * (@tugbucket) * [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15261488) * [@neubrech07](https://wordpress.org/support/users/neubrech07/) ah, yeah. I noticed your shortcode was: `[mctagmap responsive=”yes” width=”150px” columns=”2″ show_pages =”yes” from_category=”glossar”]` and I was going to look at it to make sure those weren’t curly quotes to make sure. Glad you got it sorted. Thanks though for bringing up from_category for pages as I had never even included that feature. * Thanks again Viewing 8 replies - 1 through 8 (of 8 total) The topic ‘Problem building the proper shortcode’ is closed to new replies. * ![](https://s.w.org/plugins/geopattern-icon/multi-column-tag-map_9e2525.svg) * [Multi-column Tag Map](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-column-tag-map/) * [Frequently Asked Questions](https://wordpress.org/plugins/multi-column-tag-map/#faq) * [Support Threads](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/multi-column-tag-map/) * [Active Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/multi-column-tag-map/active/) * [Unresolved Topics](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/multi-column-tag-map/unresolved/) * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/multi-column-tag-map/reviews/) ## Tags * [category](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/category/) * [pages](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/pages/) * [shortcode](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/shortcode/) * 8 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [tugbucket](https://wordpress.org/support/users/tugbucket/) * Last activity: [4 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-building-the-proper-shortcode/#post-15261488) * Status: resolved