wpcolor

<p>IMPORTANT you need to choose SET FEATURED IMAGE when you upload an image to your post. The plugin only shows featured images.</p>
<p>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.</p>
<p>Some Features</p>
<ul>
<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.

Micah Wood

<p>The <strong>Custom Front Page</strong> plugin allows to you set any post or page, including custom post types, as the homepage.</p>
<h4>Why?</h4>
<p>Let’s say you have created a ‘landing page’ post type.  This post type provides you with all the input fields and default<br />
design needed to make awesome landing pages easy.  These landing pages are so awesome, in fact, that you decide to use one as your homepage.<br />
But wait, WordPress won’t let you do that… until now!  Just install “Custom Front Page” and you can select any page, post or custom post type<br />
to be the homepage on your site.</p>
<h4>How?</h4>
<p>Using this plugin is simple:</p>
<ol>
<li>Install the plugin</li>
<li>Activate the plugin</li>
<li>Go to ‘Reading’ under ‘Settings’ in the WordPress admin menu and select the desired front page.</li>
<li>Save your changes</li>
</ol>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Works with custom post types</li>
<li>No settings page, just adds additional post types to the front page dropdown</li>
<li>Clean, well written code that won’t bog down your site</li>
</ul>


Custom Front Page

Easily set any page or post, including custom post types, as the homepage for your site.

Site Layout Customizer vs Custom Front Page