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@Symm2112

Shortcodes are for embedding in posts, did you mean template tag?

Here is the code that “should” work to do what you want, but I have not tested it.

<?php

if ( bp_has_links( array( 'newest', 'per_page' => 3, 'category' => $your_category_id ) ) )  {

while ( bp_links() ) {

bp_the_link();

// you will need to output your custom HTML here based on

// what you need from links-loop-item.php

}

}

?>