Title: Filter not working?
Last modified: January 15, 2021

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# Filter not working?

 *  [jstollvt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jstollvt/)
 * (@jstollvt)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-not-working-50/)
 * I’m trying to use this plugin for the first time. I’m using it with the Catch
   Everest Pro theme, and trying to list posts from a specific category on a page.
   I’m using the tag like:
    [display-posts category=”openings”] (where “openings”
   is a category, and there are several posts in the category…)
 * But all posts (from all categories) are displaying on the page.
 * I’ve also tried:
    [display-posts category_id=”5″] (where “5” is the category 
   ID for the “openings” category)
 * But all posts are still displaying.
 * I tried specifying a category that does not exist (just to see if anything different
   might happen), but it’s still showing all posts.
 * Am I doing something wrong? Am I missing some key point or detail of the plugin?
   Is the plugin perhaps incompatible with the Catch Everest Pro theme?
 * Any help or pointers would be appreciated!

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 *  Thread Starter [jstollvt](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jstollvt/)
 * (@jstollvt)
 * [5 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/filter-not-working-50/#post-13910620)
 * Ok, it appears I suffered from noob-ism. (Ok, I still suffer from noob-ism, but
   this is one step in the right direction…)
 * I had been using the ‘Blog’ page template. When I changed the page template to
   the ‘Default’ template, the filter started working correctly. (I like the layout
   of the ‘Blog’ template, so perhaps a custom template is in order?)
 * Anyway, the filter is in fact working, when I use the Default template.

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