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.

netbiel

This plugin ads some extra options to your Customizer (like social icons), registers taxonomies and custom posts types for: 
– Portfolio items 
– Testimonials 
– FAQ 
– Team Members
This plugin doesn’t change how new post types are displayed in your theme. e.g You’ll need to add templates for archive-portfolio.php and single-portfolio.php if you want to customize the display of portfolio items. 
In the theme integrated with smartlib library you don’t need do anything

Smartlib Tools

Useful post types and customizer options.

Locus vs Smartlib Tools