Archive posts

This plugin only supports the built-in WordPress post statuses: publish, pending, draft, auto-draft, future, private, inherit, trash, and any. Here’s the code that validates post statuses.

Since you’re specifying a status outside of this list, it is being stripped from the shortcode attributes, and the results should be the same as if you didn’t include it (ex: [display-posts]).

I used LH Archive Post Status plug-in that adds archive status to posts. I am guessing they are not compatible?

Unfortunately no, this plugin does not support custom post statuses.

Understood. Thanks for the quick reply!