How to change length of front page posts?

I recently installed Wordpress (for the first time). Everything works fine, but my front page posts get cut off at 3 1/2 lines.

I want to either control how much I display on the front page, or increse the size to something longer than 3 1/2 lines. Is there a setting I'm missing somewhere?

In the Admin/Write section where I write my posts, there is a 'Insert More tag' that seems like that would let me control what part of the post is on the front page, and what is saved to the next page, but it doesn't actually do anything for me.

Am I missing something obvious?

 

Sounds like your template is built or set to show excerpts or something instead of full posts. Do you have a link for us.

hope that helps,
Nigel

 

Search for:

<?php the_excerpt(); ?>

Code (markup):

in your index.php or home.php. Change it to:

<?php the_content(); ?>

Code (markup):

 

This was a custom theme I bought. It looks like this was the limitation of the theme. I contacted the designer, and he changed it. Thanks for the answer guys, I'm not familair with WP and this is my first real blog and I wasn't sure where to look for answers...