David Walsh

This plugin allows WordPres admins to prevent posts in a given category from displaying on the homepage / main loop as well as the RSS feed.
Two new checkbox will display on the “Add New Category” and “Edit Category” screens — it’s that simple!

Remove Posts in Category From Homepage

This plugin allows WordPres admins to prevent posts in a given category from displaying on the homepage / main loop as well as the RSS feed.

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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