Title: Category Fail
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Category Fail

 *  Resolved [supasista](https://wordpress.org/support/users/supasista/)
 * (@supasista)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-fail/)
 * My client is using the plugin for the media section of her website and wants 
   only “Media” category items to show. I used the following shortcode:
 * [thumbnailgrid height=”200px” width=”auto” category=”9″ posts_per_page=”999″]
 * The site continues to show all the blog posts instead of just that category.
 * Here is a link to the page: [http://monicaacoleman.com/media/](http://monicaacoleman.com/media/)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-grid/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/thumbnail-grid/)

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 *  Plugin Author [A. Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadcoder/)
 * (@nomadcoder)
 * [11 years, 6 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-fail/#post-5426520)
 * Hi, I am not sure if you are using the right category id.
 * It looks like what you want are the posts here: [http://monicaacoleman.com/category/media/](http://monicaacoleman.com/category/media/)
 * [http://monicaacoleman.com/?cat=9](http://monicaacoleman.com/?cat=9) to see what
   wordpress should be showing for that category id, 9. It links to the category
   the-beautiful-mind-blog/monicas-blog:
 * [http://monicaacoleman.com/category/the-beautiful-mind-blog/monicas-blog/](http://monicaacoleman.com/category/the-beautiful-mind-blog/monicas-blog/)
 * Are those the posts that you want displayed in the grid? If so, you could try
   using cat=”9″.
 * If not, you should double check the category id by going to the admin menu, selecting
   posts, clicking on categories. Once the list of categories open up, click on 
   the media category, and choose the edit option. Once the edit screen has opened
   up, highlight the link in the address bar and look for tag_ID=. The number following
   tag_ID will be the category id.
 * You can also try category_name=”media” If media is the category slug for the 
   Media category. This does not always work for sub categories, so I would suggest
   making sure that you have the correct category id first.
 * More here: [http://www.shooflysolutions.com/software/featured-image-thumbnail-grid-for-wordpress/#a2](http://www.shooflysolutions.com/software/featured-image-thumbnail-grid-for-wordpress/#a2)
 *  Plugin Author [A. Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadcoder/)
 * (@nomadcoder)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-fail/#post-5426688)
 * Closing this topic since there has been no response.

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 * Last reply from: [A. Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/nomadcoder/)
 * Last activity: [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/category-fail/#post-5426688)
 * Status: resolved