ammar.shahraki

<p>Blog Post Filter is a plugin that allow the site administrator selects which categories should be shown on the site frontpage. Only posts that are in the selected categories would be shown on the site main loop.</p>
<p>Major features of Blog Post filter include:</p>
<ul>
<li>Simplicity: In contrast with similar plugin this plugin is very simple and easy to use.</li>
<li>Efficiency: The plugin has a minimum processing overhead on the site.</li>
<li>Multilingual: Supports Persian and English admin page translation.</li>
</ul>


Blog Post Filter

in fact I am the publisher of the plugin and it's natural that I rate it the best.
But, indeed it does the work that is expected without adding any complexity. Just install it and select the categories that you would like to appear on the front page.



Simple and effective

Blog Post Filter filters frontpage posts by their categories.

kirilisa

<p>Frontpage Manager allows you to customize how the posts appear on your frontpage in several different ways.</p>
<ul>
<li>you can have the posts drawn from all categories or a subset of your choosing </li>
<li>you can choose how many posts should display (this is distinct from WordPress’ built-in Reading Settings which applies to all blog pages)</li>
<li>you can have each post limited in length by number of characters, words, or paragraphs</li>
<li>you can choose which HTML tags should be stripped from posts</li>
<li>you can specify a read more link, etc. if you like </li>
<li>you can hide the category in the page title, if you wish</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin will attempt to make sure that any tags that are interrupted by the post-limiting feature are matched so as not to cause formatting issues.</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>I have tested this plugin from WordPress 2.8.</p>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p><a href="http://kirilisa.com/downloads/projects/wordpress/frontpage-manager_1.3.zip" title="Download version 1.3" rel="nofollow ugc">Version 1.3</a></p>


Frontpage Manager

Lets you customize how your frontpage and/or main posts page appears in a number of ways: limiting by category/ies, number of posts, number of words/c …

Blog Post Filter vs Frontpage Manager