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This simple plugin will hide posts from children categories.
It just override include_children property for hierarchical taxonomies.

Exclude Children

This simple plugin will hide posts from children categories

danaila_iulian

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NEW Version 2.0.0 brings a great new feature: with some magic, if your theme displays category/term description, then it would be automatically enhanced. 
Are you ready for more? You can customize the template by creating a <code>content-ecp.php</code> file in your theme of choice.
Enhanced Category Pages allows you to create custom category and term pages by managing them using a special custom post type.
Premium code quality ensured by Codacy static analysis: <a href="https://www.codacy.com/app/2wit/enhanced-category-pages" rel="nofollow ugc">grade A</a>.
Features
<ul>
<li>NEW Visual Composer compatible – you can now edit the category using Visual Composer</li>
<li>NEW Genesis Framework compatible</li>
<li>WooCommerce compatible – product categories can be enhanced now</li>
<li>Easy to use for everyone: users, designers, developers</li>
<li>Automatically show enhanced category/term content</li>
<li>Customize enhanced category/term content by creating a <code>content-ecp.php</code> file in your theme of choice</li>
<li>Traverse categories using setup_ec_data that allows now category id as parameter</li>
<li>Enhance any taxonomy: edit any taxonomy term as a custom post</li>
<li>Edit category as a custom post – Enhanced Category</li>
<li>Automatically generates Enhanced Category post type for each category</li>
<li>Transparent synchronization of Enhanced Category and it’s corresponding category</li>
<li>Add any features available to WordPress custom posts</li>
<li>Easy Enhanced Category display on category template using <code><?php $GLOBALS['enhanced_category']->setup_ec_data(); ?></code> (see install section)</li>
<li>Internationalization ready</li>
</ul>
Future Features
<ul>
<li>customize Enhanced Category custom post type capabilities via plugin options</li>
<li>manual selection on enhanced categories</li>
</ul>

Enhanced Category Pages

Create custom enhanced pages for categories and any taxonomy term and manage them as a custom post.

Exclude Children vs Enhanced Category Pages