Front Page Category

Description

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.

Installation

Download the zip and unzip the ‘front-page-category.zip’ file into the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.
Open the customizer and go to your websites front page (the settings will only display if the front page is the current page).
Visit Front Page Category in the Customizer, and uncheck categories that you don’t want to show up on the front page.
View your front page and confirm that your excluded categories are not showing.

Reviews

Good Plugin for 2nd blog:)

By jaroslawistok on November 19, 2022

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

Thanks

By sirilandgren on March 2, 2022

Thanks a lot for making this thing that should have been baseline! <3

Not working with DIVI

By hexaae on December 13, 2021

3.3.2 not working with my site using DIVI 4.14.2 + WP 5.8.2

it works on the theme FUKASAWA

By yumk00 on May 21, 2021

This plugin works well! It did what I wanted to do.

perfect

By ZnetGuru (sterrivel) on March 14, 2021

perfect. tHX to developper

Absolutely loving it!

By khrisme on September 19, 2019

Works perfectly as described! Thanks for your work! WP 5.2.3

Best Category Excluder Plugin

By chartsandtrends on May 31, 2019

I had installed the Ultimate Category excluder that is recommended everywhere but it did not do the job. I had checked a category to be excluded from the front page and it did not go away. Then I search for an alternative plugin and found this Front Page Category one. Just had to figure out the settings are in an additional menu item almost at the bottom in Customize -> Appearance -> Front Page Category menu item.

Good

By tuyen9xvn on April 17, 2019

Đã hoạt động.

Easy, simple, powerful

By holgerhubbs on March 23, 2019

Thank you! It worked out of the box!

Great plugin, great developer.

By teryg93 on March 13, 2019

Plugin is easy to set up and use, and does exactly what I need it to do. And when the newest release didn't work quite right with my theme, the developer was quick to help out.

Changelog

3.3.5 – 5th September 2022

Fix undefined function error.

3.3.4 – 5th September 2022

Fix undefined value error.

3.3.3 – 28th February 2022

Fix: Ensure the values being checked are always ints and not strings. Fixes issue with string in_array check. Thanks @coriolis_too for the report and the fix.

3.3.2 – 4th May 2021

Always display the category list. Previously it was only shown on the homepage but this is confusing.

3.3.1 – 11th April 2021

Allow all categories to be selected, even if they have no content in them.
Ensure all attributes are escaped.

3.3 – 19th March 2019

Attempt to restrict the filtering to blog posts only.
Improve coding standards.

3.2 – 17th March 2019

Improve coding standards.
Ensure we’re not filtering menu contents.

3.1 – 15th March 2019

Revert change that restricts filtering to the main query (blog posts), and applies it to everything on the homepage.
Add an option to filter just the posts in the main query (blog posts).

3.0 – 25th January 2019

Add an option to decide whether to include or exclude the categories you have selected.

Front Page Category