It’s even more easy. You don’t need the plugin.
You can do it with a new category (e.g. “hidden”). Add all blog post you want to hide only to that category “hidden”. Add the “sticky” tag to these blog post and attach an article picture as well
In “Design/Theme Options” goto “Porfolio Page” and choose your new category “hidden” as the Portfolio Category.
In “Design/Theme Options” goto “Home Page” and tick “Exclude Portfolio Category from main loop” at “Exclude Portfolio”.
Add the CSS code mentioned above.
I made an example on my page but NO GUARANTEE how long it will be there as I play around alot with the theme… 🙂
Cheers,
Alexander @ http://www.mouseclick.com