How to display summary post at the wordpress blog homepage?

Hi,

I want to know how do I display a short summary, insteads of full article post, of wordpress post at my blog homepage. currently, my blog homepage:

http://www.moneysearch4u.com/online-casino-blog/

you can see it currently display full article post at my blog homepage. how do I display a short summary as what most other blogs do? do i use "except"? I typed in the texts, but it didn't display anything. What should I do?

Thanks

 

Change <?php the_content(); ?> to <?php the_excerpt(); ?> in index.php, this limits it to a certain amount of words.

However there is another way I just remembered, when writing your posts if you add:
<!--more-->
Then everything before this is put as the snippet on the homepage.

For example:

My Post Summary Text <!--more--> More Post Text

Only My Post Summary Text will be displayed on the homepage, then all of it will be displayed on the post page.

So either use that or the excerpt to auto limit every post to about 50 words i think it is.!

 

<!--more--> offers good control and a link "Read more" will be displayed for the user to read the rest of the post

 

have a try, this will help you

http://www.problogdesign.com/how-to/the-2-methods-of-showing-excerpts/

Code (markup):

 

Thank you very much guys! Got various solutions for short summary for my blog post article to be displayed at the homepage.