Diana K. Cury

List post from a specific category with options like date format, link text, order and more. Locus is a very simple plugin for display content in diferrent ways:
<ul>
<li>Display a single post, page or any available post type.</li>
<li>Display full content or the excerpt, or both!</li>
<li>Category descriptions are visible by default, if any.</li>
<li>Configure date format, link text or hide them all.</li>
<li>Use styles for every block, (refer the stylesheet in <code>locus/control/locus-style.css</code>)</li>
<li>Set display post orders, such random, by date, by author, comment count (popularity) etc</li>
<li>Display thumbnails, if available</li>
<li>Easy to use: you don’t have to learn to use it</li>
<li>Settings per widget, so you can have different widgets.</li>
</ul>

Locus

Locus allows you display any post, page or post type in widgetized areas of you site.

prettyboymp

CMS Press opens up the ability to create and manage custom content types and taxonomies for your WordPress site. 
It adds the flexibility to have more than just posts and pages for content by allowing the user to register their 
own post_types that can use their separate theming from the post and page template along with its own permalink structure.
Along with custom post_types, CMS Press gives users the ability to register their own taxonomies. With the addition of 
custom taxonomies, a user can tag or categorize content separate from the default tags and categories.

CMS Press

Adds ability to create custom content types (post_types) and taxonomies to your WordPress installation.

Locus vs CMS Press