Maria Daniel Deepak

WP Categories Metabox Extended extends the Category metabox on your WordPress editor. Once installed the Category metabox gets a search bar with which you search Categories. Also, this is only seen on “Add New Post” screen in the WordPress Admin dashboard.
From <a href="https://wordpress.org/support/wordpress-version/version-5-0/" rel="ugc">WordPress 5.0</a>, the search bar is included with the Categories metabox. In case you choose to use the Classic editor by using plugins like <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/disable-gutenberg/" rel="ugc">Disable Gutenberg</a>, then WP Categories Metabox Extended plugin will continue to extend the Categories metabox for the default “Post” post type.

WP Categories Metabox Extended

WP Categories Metabox Extended plugin allows you to search and assign Categories to your post in your WordPress editor.

Marios Alexandrou

Ultimate Category Excluder, abbreviated as UCE, is a WordPress plugin that allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and searches. Just select which categories you want to be excluded, and UCE does all the work for you!

Ultimate Category Excluder

Ultimate Category Excluder allows you to quickly and easily exclude categories from your front page, archives, feeds, and search results.

WP Categories Metabox Extended vs Ultimate Category Excluder