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Factory Featured Plugin displays a set amount of posts in a loop with a custom field image and links to that post, making a gallery of images linked to the posts.
Has configurable settings, such as; 
* Image Width and Height 
* Set the category to pull posts from 
* Set the amount of posts to show.
Nice and easy way to present a certain category of posts in a widget area. Have a look at the Sceenshots to get a better idea of what it looks like.

Featured Factory

Displays a set amount of posts in block with custom field images. Configurable from the Widgets panel.

mimo

This plugin adds a widget to your WordPress site called Wp Loop, publish this widget wherever needed and set its options, it creates a WordPress Query Loop that has Grid Layout(Isotope) and can be filtered with ajax(Isotope Filtering), it can display any CPT and has a bunch of design options and loop customizations:
<ul>
<li>-Title: Title of the widget</li>
<li>-Categories to show, use slugs separated by commas: Which categories to include in the loop, they can be custom post types categories</li>
<li>-Categories to hide, use ids separated by commas: The categories to hide, here you need to use id’s</li>
<li>-Filter taxonomyIf you need to filter the loop(ajax filter), write here wchich term you need to filter.</li>
<li>-Offset, number: Write the number for offset in the loop, this means the number of post you need to jump from beginning.</li>
<li>-Number of posts to show: Posts per page</li>
<li>-Image Size to use: This will list all available image sizes in theme, so choose which you prefer</li>
<li>-Post Type to use: This field will list all available post types in theme for you to choose one</li>
<li>-Order: Order of loop</li>
<li>-Order by: Order by</li>
<li>-Columns to use: You can set here until 20 columns</li>
<li>-Title Words, number: How many words to show in title of posts</li>
<li>-Excerpt Words, number: How many words to show in excerpt of posts</li>
<li>-Infinite Scroll: Choose to No, Button or Auto(the infinite scroll triggers when you scroll down the page)</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage instructions</h3>
Just publish the widget wherever needed. It works great with Site Origin Panels plugin to create full layouts.
<h3>Developer instructions</h3>
Apart from the options inside widget you can manipulate the before/after loop and articles content with this actions:
do_action(‘wploop_before_content’); // The beginnning of content inside each article 
do_action(‘wploop_after_content’); // The end of content inside each article 
do_action(‘wploop_before_loop’); // Out of the loop 
do_action(‘wploop_after_loop’); // Out of the loop
Find plugin and issues solved at http://mimo.studio

Wp Loop

Creates a Widget to display a Masonry, Infinite scroll, filterable loop of posts or whatever custom post type you have. Includes 1-20 columns layout.

Featured Factory vs Wp Loop