Hello. I've seen a few posts here about excerpts, but nothing that quite fits what I'm looking for. What I'd like the option of doing is on the front page, having just an excerpt instead of the whole post. The excerpt length should ideally be defined by me. What I'd also like is for the excerpt to finish with something like "Read more..." where clicking on it makes the rest of the post appear/expand on the front page (ideal) or at least takes the user to the post's individual page.
As it stands right now with just putting in a custom excerpt and making the appropriate change from 'the_content' to 'the_excerpt' on the index.php, there is no "Read more..." option. This gives the visible impression that the excerpt itself could be the complete post. It's not obvious to the reader that they must click on the post title to read the entire post.
Thanks for the assistance.