Title: Does the shortcode work with PDF files?
Last modified: August 31, 2016

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# Does the shortcode work with PDF files?

 *  Resolved [Jasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucydog/)
 * (@lucydog)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-the-shortcode-work-with-pdf-files/)
 * Hello,
    I was able to insert a gallery of images using the shortcode, similar
   to below:
 * [gallery media_category="5" category="2" limit="10" monthnum="12" year="2015"
   orderby="title" order="DESC"] or [playlist media_category="5" category="2" limit
   ="10" monthnum="12" year="2015" orderby="title" order="DESC"]
 * However, when I tried to do this with PDF documents, it came up with “no files
   found.” Maybe I have not called it up correctly – I used [gallery pdf_file="37"](
   category ID is 37).
 * I am trying to create a page where new PDF files added to certain categories 
   will show up automatically when the users add new PDF files and assign them to
   the proper category.
 * Thanks!
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-media-library/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/enhanced-media-library/)

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 *  Plugin Author [webbistro](https://wordpress.org/support/users/webbistro/)
 * (@webbistro)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-the-shortcode-work-with-pdf-files/#post-7241382)
 * Hello Jasper,
 * WordPress does not support document galleries, only images can be a gallery. 
   That said, we are going to add this feature to some of the next releases.
 * Best,
    -Nadia
 *  Thread Starter [Jasper](https://wordpress.org/support/users/lucydog/)
 * (@lucydog)
 * [10 years, 2 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-the-shortcode-work-with-pdf-files/#post-7241383)
 * Thanks for your response, Nadia!
 *  [DanStarr](https://wordpress.org/support/users/danstarr/)
 * (@danstarr)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-the-shortcode-work-with-pdf-files/#post-7241412)
 * Hi Nadia, I’m looking for the same. I want to serve up PDF files from my media
   library, using the Categories and Media_Categories shortcode options in something
   like a display-posts lists, e.g. [display-posts media_category=”document” category
   =”newsletter” orderby=”date” order=”DESC”].
 * You say you’re looking at this in the next release. Do you have the timing for
   that? Thanks for any info you can provide.
 * -Dan
 *  [bluebird2](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bluebird2/)
 * (@bluebird2)
 * [10 years, 1 month ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/does-the-shortcode-work-with-pdf-files/#post-7241435)
 * I need the same feature. I think many others need this as well.

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