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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.

Paolo T. (pixline)

swergroup

Category Pages & Posts Shortcodes offers helpful shortcodes to display a post or page content, or a list of posts. 
It also allow an exclusive relationship between a Category and a Page, in order to display the page content as “header” of category archives, with a simple php tag.
You can safely use shortcodes inside a post or a page, you can embed them in your templates or in your sidebar 
using the <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/do_shortcode" rel="nofollow ugc">do_shortcode</a> WordPress function, like that:
<pre><code><?php do_shortcode('[showsingle <options>"]'); ?>
</code></pre>
<ul>
<li><a href="http://dev.swergroup.com/pages-and-posts-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation and usage examples</a></li>
<li><a href="https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/page2cat">Support Forum</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/swergroup/category-pages-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">GitHub repository</a></li>
<li><a href="https://travis-ci.org/swergroup/category-pages-shortcodes" rel="nofollow ugc">Build status on Travis CI</a></li>
</ul>
This plugin is published under GPL2 open source license by <a href="http://swergroup.com/sviluppo/siti-internet-torino/" rel="nofollow ugc">SWER Sviluppo siti internet Torino</a>. If you find it useful, please <a href="https://flattr.com/submit/auto?user_id=swergroup&url=https://wordpress.org/plugins/page2cat/&title=Page2Cat%20WP%20plugin" rel="nofollow ugc">Flattr this!</a>

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