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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.

Balazs

Weart Category Posts Widget is a small simple, rock solid widget with one only one task: 
Display the latest posts with the most beautiful way from the picked category in the sidebar.
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Pick a category to display posts.</li>
<li>Set the number of displaying posts.</li>
<li>Featured Images (if it is avalible) for the post with two sizes (full, thumbnail)</li>
<li>Enable excerpts to display.</li>
<li>Turn ON / OFF the Date displaying.</li>
<li>Fully Translateable</li>
<li>Minimal CSS, no JS to not causes any conflict with the theme.</li>
</ul>
<h4>More about me</h4>
<a href="http://weartstudio.eu" rel="nofollow ugc"> I am </a> a WordPress developer, check my website for more information about my works.
<h3>Translations</h3>
<ul>
<li>English – default, always included</li>
<li>Hungarian – a Magyar fordítást a bővítmény tartalmazza</li>
</ul>
Note: This plugin is localized/ translateable by default. This is very important for all users worldwide. So please contribute your language to the plugin to make it even more useful. For translating I recommend the awesome <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/codestyling-localization/" rel="ugc">“Codestyling Localization” plugin</a> and for validating the <a href="http://www.poedit.net/" rel="nofollow ugc">“Poedit Editor”</a>.

Weart Category Posts Widget

Weart Category Posts Widget displays the latest posts in the sidebar from a picked category with featured image.

Home Categories vs Weart Category Posts Widget