How to show summary of posts on front page?

I want to show partial post, and not the entire post.

Example: Techcrunch.com shows partial post.

How can one do that in Wordpress?

 

you can either use the <!--more--> tag or edit the theme.

If you are going to edit the theme:

edit home.php

Find

<?php the_content(); ?>

Code (markup):

Replace with

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

Code (markup):

 

This is known as a "teaser" just put the <!--more--> marker at the end of the part you want to be the teaser...

 

Log into wordpress - go to settings - go to reading - and where you see

check summary instead of full posts.

Of course you can use plugins for your feeds etc.

 

You can use the php excerpt tag

http://codex.wordpress.org/Template_Tags/the_excerpt

and then add a link to post <a href="<?php the_permalink(); ?>">Read more</a>

or u can show the_excerpt_rss

theres a plugin excerpt reloaded, u could use to customize excerpt