Wordpress excerpt question

I'd like to have excerpts on the homepage (posts) and instead of the full post I'd like to have excerpts. Is there a plugin for this or do I need to find the right theme?

I'm trying to use this plugin, but I can't make heads or tails of it. Will this plugin do this or am I just spinning my wheels for nothing?

http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/advanced-excerpt/

As a last resort I'll use a static page and hard code the links, but I was looking for something quicker.

Thanks

 

Here is a nice plugin to try: Homepage Excerpts

 

I'm not sure about either of the above, but it's just a quicky theme edit. Check the wordpress.org documentation codex for excerpts

 

There is an excerpt box in your post editor, or you can just use the "more" tag to cut your post off after a few sentences. no need for unnecessary plug ins to do a function already a part of Word Press.

 

The post editor in WP doesn't create an excerpt on the homepage, I tried it a while back, unless it's changed.

The more tag is something I tried a while back as well and it does work, I forgot all about that. I saved the code someplace, if I can only remember where. Do you happen to know the exact code?

Thanks

 

It's right in your editor, it looks like two half squares on top of each other

 

That's the one

I can customize the excerpts.

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Yep, I used homepage excerpts as well. Easy to use.

 

I am not a big fan of using plugins in place of code either. But for those who are "code impaired" Homepage Excerpts plugin is real easy to use. One of the features I like is that you can display the latest post full and the rest as excerpts. I did a similar setup with the loop code on a few themes and it took a while to get it right. The plugin is just too easy not to use in this case.