WordPress.com Hosted Site – Using [archives] Shortcode – Group By Category

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  adinermie · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 4:28 pm

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  Is there a way, on a WordPress.com hosted website, to use the [archive] shortcode, but display/group by category?

  For example, I would think it would be something like this: [archive type=category order=desc].

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  kokkieh · Staff · Jul 1, 2014 at 4:43 pm

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  You can’t use the archive shortcode in that way (I’ve tried it myself), but you can create category pages using a custom menu that will display your posts in a given category. See here for more info:
  http://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/

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  timethief · Member · Jul 1, 2014 at 4:57 pm

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  You can use the display posts shortcode on a Page. http://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/
  Example:
  [display-posts category="must-read" posts_per_page="-1" include_date="true" order="ASC" orderby="title"]

  This will list every post in the Must Read category, in alphabetical order, with the date appended to the end.