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.

Adam Harley (Kawauso)

Adds a setting under Settings -> Reading to allow the front page post count to be controlled independently of the main post count and adjusts paging to accomodate for this.
Uses the <code>pre_get_posts</code> hook and checks for the <code>$wp_the_query</code> query being passed, so won’t work with <code>query_posts()</code>.

Set Front Page Post Count

Allows the front page to have a different number of posts than other pages.

Site Layout Customizer vs Set Front Page Post Count