Title: Problem using display-posts shortcode
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Problem using display-posts shortcode

 *  [jayleask](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jayleask/)
 * (@jayleask)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-display-posts-shortcode/)
 * I am attempting to use the display-posts shortcode built into wordpress, hopefully
   I’m not the issue and misunderstanding how to use it. I put the following code
   on both a page and a post, and all it does is display the code in the post itself,
   it does not render the code and display the expected posts:
 * `[display-posts category=”family-stories-trees” orderby=”title” order=”ASC”]
 * I’ve seen in search it might be a theme issue, though I see no similar posts 
   in the theme support. I’m assuming I’m doing something wrong – I don’t do a lot
   of WordPress development so for me not to “get” something wouldn’t be a huge 
   surprise.
 * Thoughts?

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 *  Moderator [Kathryn Presner](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zoonini/)
 * (@zoonini)
 * [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-display-posts-shortcode/#post-5287185)
 * Hi there, the display posts shortcode is only built into WordPress.com, not self-
   hosted WordPress sites.
 * Is your site running on your own host or on WordPress.com?
 * If you’re on a self-hosted site, you could try this plugin:
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/display-posts-shortcode/)

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 * Last activity: [11 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/problem-using-display-posts-shortcode/#post-5287185)
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