TomHarrigan

Go to the homepage or blog page of a site, chances are, all of the posts look similar: A title, an excerpt and a featured image. Why not display the most important part of your posts to readers and actually give them a reason to click on your post a read it? That’s what this plugin does.
To enable Post Style formatting functionality, go to Settings->Reading and select “Enable Post Style formatting.”
McNinja Post Styles is what we always wanted Post Formats to be: powerful, flexible and extendable. Unleash the creativity of your content.
McNinja Post Styles can display content based on the Post Style of a post. For example, if your post has a video in it and you’ve selected the ‘Video’ style, your blog page, category pages, etc. will display that video rather than an excerpt.
Post Styles can be selected for a Post from the ‘Edit Post’ screen.
For more information or to follow the project, check out the <a href="http://thomasharrigan.com/mcninja-post-styles/" rel="nofollow ugc">project page</a>.
McNinja Post Styles…
<ul>
<li>Allows authors to choose how to display a Post</li>
<li>Supports all of the formats added by Post Formats (aside, gallery, link, image, quote, status, video, audio, chat) so that if your theme made use of Post Formats, the same templates can be used.</li>
</ul>

McNinja Post Styles

It's like Post Formats, but actually useful. Every post is unique, start treating them that way.

Ben Casey

WP Post Formats creates a powerful visual interface using the <a href="http://ace.c9.io/" rel="nofollow ugc">ACE editor</a> and the <a href="http://twig.sensiolabs.org/doc/templates.html" rel="nofollow ugc">Twig template engine</a> for safe, easy and functional modification of your post formats without ever having to enter into the files.
Functions:
The following functions are added to Twig for easy use.
<ul>
<li>{{ permalink() }}</li>
<li>{{ content( more_link_text, stripteaser ) }}</li>
<li>{{ excerpt() }}</li>
<li>{{ title( before, after ) }}</li>
<li>{{ tags( before, sep, after ) }}</li>
<li>{{ author }}</li>
<li>{{ category( seperator, parents ) }}</li>
<li>{{ time( ‘F j, Y’) }}</li>
<li>{{ post_thumbnail( size ) }}</li>
<li>{{ term_list( taxonomy, before, sep, after ) }}</li>
<li>{{ post_class() }}</li>
<li>{{ shortcode( ‘[some-shortcode]’) }}</li>
<li>{{ post_meta( ‘some-postmeta’) }}</li>
</ul>
Hooks:
WP Post formats has added a number of hooks and filters to enable easy modification of default functionality, this may void your warranty so use with care! If there is not one where you need it, drop me a line i’d be happy to add it in.
If you have any feedback or suggestions, feel free to drop me a line st <a href="http://www.tigerstrike.media/" rel="nofollow ugc">Tiger Strike Media</a>

WP Post Formats

Allows you to easily edit the way your post formats display using the ACE editor and the Twig template engine.

McNinja Post Styles vs WP Post Formats