fabrizim

<p>Choose the post types that you would like to choose from in addition to Pages. The<br />
“Front Page:” dropdown will then display each different post type in their own groups.</p>
<p>This will not result in a redirect on the front page as has been seen in other attempts<br />
to provide this functionality. In addition, the canonical url will be properly reflected<br />
as the home url.</p>


CPT on Front Page

very good plugin !

This plugin allows post types other than "page" to be displayed as the static front page.

kirilisa

<p>Frontpage Manager allows you to customize how the posts appear on your frontpage in several different ways.</p>
<ul>
<li>you can have the posts drawn from all categories or a subset of your choosing </li>
<li>you can choose how many posts should display (this is distinct from WordPress’ built-in Reading Settings which applies to all blog pages)</li>
<li>you can have each post limited in length by number of characters, words, or paragraphs</li>
<li>you can choose which HTML tags should be stripped from posts</li>
<li>you can specify a read more link, etc. if you like </li>
<li>you can hide the category in the page title, if you wish</li>
</ul>
<p>The plugin will attempt to make sure that any tags that are interrupted by the post-limiting feature are matched so as not to cause formatting issues.</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>I have tested this plugin from WordPress 2.8.</p>
<h3>Download</h3>
<p><a href="http://kirilisa.com/downloads/projects/wordpress/frontpage-manager_1.3.zip" title="Download version 1.3" rel="nofollow ugc">Version 1.3</a></p>


Frontpage Manager

Lets you customize how your frontpage and/or main posts page appears in a number of ways: limiting by category/ies, number of posts, number of words/c …

CPT on Front Page vs Frontpage Manager