Daily Edition is a powerful blog theme that puts your content into focus. It is specially designed for online magazines, journals and informative blogs. There is a unique JavaScript homepage featured slider with thumbnail previews of previous/next sliders.
This WordPress premium blog theme has a "talking points" homepage that can show posts according to tags (from most commented to least commented). There is also a handy homepage video player with thumbnail hover effect. You can easily specify how many full width or "box" posts you want to display on the homepage.