Frontpage manager let you customize how your frontpage and/or main posts page appears in a number of ways: limiting by category/ies, number of posts, number of words/characters/paragraphs. The plugin will attempt to make sure that any tags that are interrupted by the post-limiting feature are matched so as not to cause formatting issues.

Features of Frontpage Manager:
- Can have the posts drawn from all categories or a subset of your choosing
- Can choose how many posts should display on the front page (this is distinct from WordPress’ built-in Reading Settings which applies to all blog pages)
- Can have each frontpage post limited in length by number of characters, words, or paragraphs
- Can choose which HTML tags should be stripped from frontpage posts
- Can specify a read more link, etc. if you like
- Can hide the category in the page title, if you wish

Requirements:
- WordPress 2.8 or Higher