Sometimes you need to exclude wordpress categories in front page , feeds , posts ,pages or archive.Here are 7 of the best category exclude wordpress plugin that can do all the job for you easily.
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This plugin was born because there was a no other real alternative to enable content separation and some CMS like functionalities in WordPress. The main goal was, to enhance WordPress’s functionality, to hide some unwanted categories, from defined parts of the blog.
Is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, and feeds. Just select which categories you want to be excluded, and UCE does all the work for you!
Extended Categories Widgets gives you three widgets for displaying categories.
- Replacement of the default category widget to allow for greater customization.
- A top categories widget. Shows the top X categories. This requires WordPress 2.8 or higher.
- A Category Group widget. Shows categories from a group which is associated with the post/page that the visitor is looking at. Categories can be added to a group. Multiple groups can be made and every post/page can be associated with a different group.
Provides an interface to selectively exclude/include categories, tags, authors and pages from the 4 actions used by WordPress
is_front – When the user views the Front page. is_archive – When the user views an category or tags Archive. is_search – When the user views a search result page. is_feed – When a Feed is viewed/requested.
Front Page Excluded Categories :
A basic plugin that excludes posts in one or more categories from appearing on the front page. This is especially useful if you use an automated posting system, like the del.icio.us bookmark blog posting feature, that updates your blog regularly. In such a case, you can assign these posts to an excluded category so they don’t appear on the front page, but do appear in a category page.
is a wordPress widget, to replace the standard categories widget by Automattic. This widget displays your categories using the wp_list_categories function, utilizes all available parameters for this function, like hierarchy, order and exclude categories in your sidebar. You can also set up to 9 intances of this widget in your sidebar(s).
Would display Posts only from certain categories
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