Title: Post list double? Last modified: May 16, 2018 --- # Post list double? * Resolved [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/) * I have installed this plugin on an internal server, so I cannot post a link to the page in question. I have a page with an assigned category of “X”. I have created a test post, also with the same category. No matter what parameters I insert, the plugin creates this from the shortcode: * * Excerpt * Page title in plain text * I do not want or need the second bullet point. What do I need to use in order to get rid of it? As it is, this is unusable for me. * Thanks! Viewing 14 replies - 1 through 14 (of 14 total) * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10290731) * Anybody? Please? I’m about to see if I can find a better plugin without this bug. I have no idea why it’s displaying that way, and there is nothing in the documentation that I can find. * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10290828) * I figured it out, but this is something that should be better documented. Somehow it inserted this as an element with an ID of “post-1234”, so when I set the CSS to “display:none;” the whole thing disappeared. However, now I will have to do that on every single page where I’m trying to insert this. 🙁 * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10290865) * Scratch that – that hides the entire list. WTH? * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10290937) * I cannot set the display to none for ANY of the CSS used in this case, b/c it’s meant to be a link back to the original page, but styled like another post. That is just not usable. * Plugin Contributor [zymeth25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zymeth25/) * (@zymeth25) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10314728) * Hi * Please share the exact shortcode you used as well as a screenshot of the result. * The generated html would also be useful. * Thanks * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10314776) * The following shortcode used to create an “extra” post at the very beginning of the list, which is essentially only a link back to the page and does not really do anything else. It also doesn’t show up in the list of regular posts, and therefore it cannot be deleted: * [catlist ID=77,79 morelink=”(More)” thumbnail=yes thumbnail_size=50,50 thumbnail_class =lcp_thumbnail numberposts=5 title_class=lcp_title title_tag=h3 date=yes date_tag =span date_class=lcp_date] * You will hate me, but all of a sudden that “mock” post is gone. Not sure what changed. * Plugin Contributor [zymeth25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zymeth25/) * (@zymeth25) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10315161) * Well, generally the LCP plugin runs a post query and returns exactly what you asked for. So if you say there was an extra bullet point, it means there must have been a post in the database that matched your parameters and therefore got displayed. * Where that post came from is another issue. * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10320114) * OK, so another report. It seems OK in the normal post list now. However, I am also using the shortcode in the right side bar as a widget: * [catlist ID=77,79 excerpt=yes excerpt_size=25 morelink=”(MORE)” title_class=lcp_title title_tag=h5 date=yes date_tag=span date_class=lcp_date_widget] * This produces the predicted 10 posts as a list, plus an extra one at the very end that really is a link to the main page where they all live. Any idea why it is doing this? * Thanks! * Plugin Contributor [zymeth25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zymeth25/) * (@zymeth25) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10320135) * Can you double check if the page itself, the one where the posts live, doesn’t have categories assigned of ids 77 or 79? * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10320609) * It has 79 assigned. * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10320610) * I need to keep the categories consistent. * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10320616) * Also, I should mention that 77 is a child of 79. * Thread Starter [dolunaykiz](https://wordpress.org/support/users/dolunaykiz/) * (@dolunaykiz) * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10360880) * OK, so I figured out what was causing it. Normally, pages don’t get categories or tags, unless you install a plugin for exactly this reason. That plugin will attach what would technically be a POST category to a page, same with tags. If you then search for posts to display in a particular category, you’ll inevitably get the PAGES as well. * Plugin Contributor [zymeth25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zymeth25/) * (@zymeth25) * [7 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-list-double/#post-10378178) * The LCP plugin does not list pages or any other post types other than “post” by default. This means that even if you have a cateogry X assigned to a page,`[ catlist name="X"]` will not display it. * But if you are using a plugin that changes this behavior and makes WordPress treat pages like posts, then the LCP plugin will act accordingly. * You can try the `excludeposts` parameter, according to the docs: * > excludeposts – IDs of posts to exclude from the list. Use ‘this’ to exclude > the current post. Ex: [catlist excludeposts=this,12,52,37] * Try `exludeposts=this` in your shortcode - This reply was modified 7 years, 10 months ago by [zymeth25](https://wordpress.org/support/users/zymeth25/). 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