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Filters the categories of posts shown on your front page.
<h4>How to Use</h4>
<ol>
<li>After Installation, activate the plugin. Don’t worry, it does nothing when activated for the first time.</li>
<li>Go to Settings > Home Categories to setup.</li>
</ol>
* Select the working mode from Show selected categories only or Hide selected categories 
* Check the target categories. 
* Press Save Changes .

Home Categories

Allows you to choose categories on an exclusive OR inclusive basis, unlike other plugins. This makes it easy to include only one category instead of excluding all but one category.
Well-designed plugin, and still working great.



Works great for showing one category

Filters the categories of posts shown on your front page.

Ahsan Rehman

This plugin allows you to display an unordered list of post (or custom post type) links (with title, featured image and exceprt) to a specific author (or multiple authors), category (or multiple categories) and tag (or multiple tags). It can be called either with a shortcode or from within a theme file.
To call it with a shortcode, use <code>[latest]</code> below are the attributes you can use with this shortcode: 
* Authors: 
 [latest author=”username or multiple usernames separated by comma”] 
* Category: 
 [latest category=”category name or names separated by comma”] 
* Tag: 
 [latest tag=”tag name or names separated by comma”] 
* Post Type: 
 [latest post_type=”post type name”] 
* Show Posts: 
 [latest show=”number of posts to show”] 
* Show Excerpt: 
 [latest excerpt=”true (default is false)”] 
* Show Thumbnail: 
 [latest thumbnail=”true (default is false)”]
To call it from within a theme template, you have to wrap it in this PHP function: <code><?php echo do_shortcode('your shortcode goes here'); ?></code>

WordPress Latest Posts by Ahsan

A plugin which enables you to get latest posts by authors, categories and tags, with featured images, excerpt, works for custom post types as well

Home Categories vs WordPress Latest Posts by Ahsan