mmilan81

This plugin gives you possibility to create bullet lists for your posts. You can choose as many lists as you want and for each list you can select categories to include or to exclude posts.
Your posts can be randomized or sord by date. With title you can chose to show date or number of comments.
Lists can be show wherever you want – above or below posts, in archive, or on single post or page. Also, you can put a widget in a sidbar. You can choose to show lists only on first page or not.
You can modify your themplate to display list of post, add for single column or for multiple columns. If you want to show a list on one page (or post) you can use a shortcode [mm-breaking-news] when you write and the whole bullet list will be displayed.

MM-Breaking News

Displays lists of posts from selected categories. You can select how many different lists you want, sort posts by date or random.

binarymoon

jwall

Front Page Category is a plugin that let you select the categories that appear on the front page of your website. If there are categories that you don’t want to appear on front page, for example the ‘uncategorized’ one, just go to the Customizer → Front Page Categories menu, and then untick the categories you want to hide.
This could be useful if you use an automated posting system, or use email to post. In these cases you can assign these posts to a category of your choice and uncheck it at Front Page Category settings. They will then be hidden from the homepage – but will still appear on their category page.

Front Page Category

I use his for hide category, a kind of second parallel blog.

Good Plugin for 2nd blog:)

A plugin that lets you select the categories that appear on the front page of your WordPress site.

MM-Breaking News vs Front Page Category