stesvis

<p>This plugin allows you to choose which post categories youe site will show on your frontpage. Just go to settings and deselect the categories that you want to hide. To display posts from other categories on other pages you need to upgrade to the <a href="http://wppluginspool.com/wp-filter-post-categories/" rel="nofollow ugc">FULL version</a>.</p>


Frontpage category filter

Allows you to show on your frontpage only posts from the categories that you select.

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 …

Frontpage category filter vs Frontpage Manager