Display post summaries on home page

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  royalfirespirit · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 2:29 pm

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  I’d like to set up my home page so that the main content area shows summaries (ie. roughly: Title and first paragraph or so) of my latest 3 or 4 blog posts, in reverse date order. Is this possible to do in WordPress? I haven’t found any options to allow it.

  I’m not too hung up on precisely how many posts are displayed or how much text of each one. The point is to let visitors to see a little bit of each of the latest few posts without having to scroll.

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  timethief · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 2:31 pm

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  To split content in your posts so only an excerpt and a read more link appears on the front page of the blog, where all posts are showcased, you insert “the more tag”. http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/more-tag/

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  royalfirespirit · Member · Apr 23, 2013 at 2:58 pm

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  Thanks timethief, that’s exactly what I wanted.