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.

Ederson Peka

Benjamin Benkert

Front Page Scheduler let you choose some page to be shown as the front page of your site during a specific daily period, in specific week days. Since version 0.1.4, you can even create a set of “rules”, choosing specific front pages for different days and periods.
Update: Benjamin Benkert fixed some bugs related to PHP versions 7 and greaters. Thanks!

Front Page Scheduler

Choose an alternate static front page to a specific daily period.

Site Layout Customizer vs Front Page Scheduler