mosseh

For more information see http://www.amoss.me.uk/tag/selective-reading/
Features
<ul>
<li>Category widget is updated with show/hide links for each category.</li>
<li>Works for unregistered users (using cookies)</li>
<li>Works for hierarchical categories</li>
</ul>
TODO/Planned Features
<ul>
<li>AJAX Reload post list after change of selection (currently refreshes whole page)</li>
<li>Configuration for contents of show/hide etc.</li>
<li>Hide links when javascript is disabled (plugin depends on javascript)</li>
<li>Tooltip when first clicked hide or show</li>
<li>Strikethrough category name when hidden</li>
<li>Notify when can’t unhide child due to hidden parent</li>
<li>Clearer indication of hierarchical hiding when hierarchical display is disabled?</li>
<li>Better error checking</li>
<li>Autoformat code</li>
<li>Support for WP super cache – does not currently function for unregistered users with this plugin enabled</li>
</ul>

Selective Reading

Allows website visitors to deselect categories they don't want to see on your blog.

paulperkins

The Bimblers Exclude Posts plugin is used to exclude selected post categories from the main loop.
This might be useful if you use WordPress posts to author content which should not be listed on the front page, 
but you still want to utilise the features of a WordPress post type and do not want to go to the effort of 
setting up custom post types.
At this point in time, the post categories excluded by the plugin are hard-coded in the main class file. A future 
version of the plugin will include a configuration GUI.

Bimbler Exclude Posts

Excludes selected posts from the main loop. Filters by post category.

Selective Reading vs Bimbler Exclude Posts