Welcome to Mega Posts. With this awesome plugin you can create a posts layout in few step. You can choose beetween 5 posts display, 3 carousel type and 2 news ticker type. And included shortcodes tab and columns

List all Features:

5 Posts Display Type
3 Posts Carousel Display
2 Posts News Ticker Display
Custom color (Main color with opacity)
Shortcode Columns
shortcode Tabs
Widget Support
4 Custom Widget: Mega Posts, Woo Mega (woocommerce posts), Flickr, Contacts
Responsive
Translation Ready (include .po/.mo files)
Orderby:ID, author, title, name, date, modified, parent, rand, Post Views
Video Tutorial
Order: DESC, ASC
Source: WP Posts, Custom Post Type (if you have a custom post type you can use this shortocodes for get posts)

Visual composer version is avalable here

IMPORTANT: this plugin is NOT affected by the new WP vulnerability issue (April 2015)

Mega Posts and Custom Posts Display WP Plugin - 1

Version 1.1 11/07/2014

Fix widget.css

Mega Posts and custom Posts Display WordPress Plugin