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:
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<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.

Stephanie Leary

This is a utility for converting lots of posts or pages to a custom post type (or vice versa). You can limit the conversion to posts in a single category or children of specific page. You can also assign new taxonomy terms, which will be added to the posts’ existing terms.
This plugin is useful for converting many posts at once. If you’d rather do one at a time, use <a href="https://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-type-switcher/" rel="ugc">Post Type Switcher</a> instead.

Convert Post Types

Wordpress 4.9.5

No better plugin for converting categories to custom post types. And vice versa.

Still works great

A bulk conversion utility for post types.

Locus vs Convert Post Types