How to display the first 3 lines of the post???

How can you display on the main page of the wp blog only a few lines from every post?
I choosed the option to display part of the post in my blog, but it still shows every post

thanks !

 

couldnt you just use the more tag to split your post where you want

 

Find the code in your home.php file that says this:

<?php the_content(__('Read more'));?>

and replace with this:

<?php the_excerpt(__('Read more'));?>

 

thanks! didn't know about that before, now did some more research and used it

is there some way to have it present the first few lines automatically though?

 

Not really - there are a few ways to accomplish this feature. Take a look at this page on my site, and you'll see I've done something similar. The way I've done it I am able to tell how many characters I want the excerpt to be.

 

In a few themes, it comes automatically.

You are talking about fininforums blog?
In that Almost Spring theme, that one has to be changed.

I had that theme before but now http://www.chattous.com
This theme is great now.