Showing only post summary in blog home page

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  mindhunter74 · Member · Feb 16, 2009 at 6:13 pm

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  How can I show only post summary in my blog home page instead of showing the whole body of each post.
  In other words, I want to show like the first 200 characters of each post instead.

  Is that possible?

  The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 16, 2009 at 6:17 pm

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  Please provide a link to your blog.

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  mindhunter74 · Member · Feb 18, 2009 at 1:32 am

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  This is my blog:
  http://mindhunter74.wordpress.com/

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 18, 2009 at 1:45 am

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  mindhunter74,

  Perhaps of use:

  https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/how-do-you-create-pages-with-just-short-excerpts-of-posts?replies=9#post-296195

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  mindhunter74 · Member · Feb 18, 2009 at 2:05 am

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  Got it. Thank you!

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  mindhunter74 · Member · Feb 18, 2009 at 2:05 am

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  Got it. Thank you!

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  1tess · Moderator Emeritus · Feb 18, 2009 at 2:13 am

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  excellent!