wpcolor

IMPORTANT you need to choose SET FEATURED IMAGE when you upload an image to your post. The plugin only shows featured images.
This plugin allows you to create a custom front page and other pages to show the latest posts. It will allow you to display your posts with different custom layouts. As an example it can make the posts on the front page look similar to a magazine or news website. The uses for it are many. It is easy to custom different layouts for your posts and pages.
Some Features
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<li>Customize & theme your frontpage, page or post</li>
<li>Display Title, pictures, excerpt, categories, tags, biographic info, author, date for each post</li>
<li>Filter posts by category</li>
<li>Integrates nicely with many themes</li>
<li>Change width & height of thumbnail & image</li>
<li>Easy Customize Layout editor</li>
<li>Display posts with shortcode</li>
<li>Put text over images & thumbnails</li>
<li>All around plugin with many uses</li>
</ul>

Site Layout Customizer

Customize the front page & other pages. Display your posts with different layouts.

fabrizim

Choose the post types that you would like to choose from in addition to Pages. The 
“Front Page:” dropdown will then display each different post type in their own groups.
This will not result in a redirect on the front page as has been seen in other attempts 
to provide this functionality. In addition, the canonical url will be properly reflected 
as the home url.

CPT on Front Page

very good plugin !

This plugin allows post types other than "page" to be displayed as the static front page.

Site Layout Customizer vs CPT on Front Page