Nigel Budlender

A simple, light and easy-to-use plugin that adds jQuery pagination to the standard wordpress gallery with cool jquery effects.
Features:
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<li>Simple and easy to use</li>
<li>Edit the number of thumbnails per page</li>
<li>Change the number of paginated links to show</li>
<li>Allows you to use jquery animation effects when navigating through gallery pages. </li>
<li>Effects included: Blind, Bounce, Clip, Drop, Explode, Fade, Fold, Highlight, Puff, Pulsate, Scale, Shake, Size, Slide</li>
<li>Change the animation speed</li>
<li>Apply to just one or many galleries on your website</li>
</ul>
Once you are happy with your gallery animations, edit the CSS to get your desired visuals for the pagination links.
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<li>Now includes the jQuery UI project</li>
</ul>

Paginated Effects Gallery

A simple, light and easy-to-use plugin that adds jQuery pagination to the standard wordpress gallery with cool jquery effects.

iziwebavenir

Exclude categories, tags, posts or pages from your homepage (without breaking pagination)

Name: WP Exclude From Homepage

works on 4.9

Great plugin. 
Stills works like a charme in WordPress 5.9.2

Works in WP 5.9.2

Exclude categories, tags, posts or pages from your homepage (without breaking pagination)

Paginated Effects Gallery vs Name: WP Exclude From Homepage