Archives Shortcode for categories?

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  suzywalker · Member · May 3, 2014 at 5:58 pm

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  Hello,

  I’d like to create a page of links to posts for a certain category. The archives short code does exactly what I want but I couldn’t see a customisation on this page for restricting down to a certain category?
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/

  For example I want to create a glossary of definitions for my coursework as I go through the course. Currently I have them all on one page (not in separate posts but its already starting to get annoying to reference a term I want, when this page has a hundred or so definitions its going to be a nightmare.

  http://digitalfilmproductionbysuzy.wordpress.com/jargon-glossary/

  I know I can have a category page but my theme shows the full posts so I’d be in the same position I am now with all the definitions laid out in full down the page. I don’t want to change themes as I’ve chosen this one carefully.

  Many thanks
  Suzy

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  thistimethisspace · Member · May 3, 2014 at 8:36 pm

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  Support doc on the shortcode:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/

  For an alphabetical list of links to all the posts that are filed under a specific category, you paste this version in a page (plain list):
  [display-posts category="NAME" posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC" orderby="title" wrapper="div"]

  or this version (bulleted list):
  [display-posts category="NAME" posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC" orderby="title"]

  Replace NAME with the actual name of a category.

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/display-posts-shortcode?replies=4#post-1283541

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  suzywalker · Member · May 6, 2014 at 12:52 pm

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  thanks thats wonderful. It looks like this only does posts posted in that exact category and not any of the children categories but that shouldn’t be a problem for what I want. Many thanks! :)

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  suzywalker · Member · May 9, 2014 at 12:34 pm

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  Anyone know what I’ve done wrong here. The code is as follows:

  [display-posts category="definitions" posts_per_page="-1" order="ASC" orderby="title"]

  but I get either 1 or 6 of the 10 items in the category showing up as links – seemly at random?

  here is the page:
  http://digitalfilmproductionbysuzy.wordpress.com/jargon-glossary-2/

  thanks
  Suzy