How to I show smaller ammounts of each post of the front page wordpress?

Hi everyone.
I was hoping someone could help me. Currently one of my blogs is showing whole articles on the front page. How do I change that so front page only shows about 3rd of each post, with a read more button?

I have checked all the settings and does'nt seem to be anywhere to change this.

 

There is a feature like that in WP mate.



Click on the more button.

 

Thats great thanks, is there any way in wordpress to set it to show a certain amount of each post as default? Rather than entering the more tag into each post?

 

Also for some reason when i use the more tag, my right side bar gets pushed right to the bottom of the page!!

 

Just put your excerpt in the "Optional Excerpt" box..that is what it's for.

 

Thanks so much, that plugin is exactly what was looking for

 

you can also use the excerpt field to enter the desired content which also acts like meta description.

 

This plugin is really great and just what I needed to make my home page look all the more user-friendly....

Thanks a lot...mate, truly appreciate your effort.

Regards,

RightMan

 

I mentioned that too. Some people just like plug ins.

 

I'd not heard of dailyblogtips.com/homepage-excerpts-wordpress-plugin/ before, I'll check it out.

I have been using post teaser: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-teaser/

Using that I found it made me think more about my first few paragraphs, but then I wasn't sure I wanted to truncate my postings after all, so now trying them back full-size again.

Decisions, decisions .....