Show Posts Title Only in WordPress Blog Frontpage

How to show only the titles of articles / posts  on the frontpage / homepage of WordPress-powered blog without displaying the contents?

This tutorial works for self-hosted WordPress blog, not in WordPress.com or any other free wordpress blog where you don’t have access to edit the index.php file.

Follow these steps

1. Login to your self-hosted WordPress blog
2. Appearance -> Editor
3. Click Index.php -> find this code <?php the_content(); ?>
4. Delete and replace with the following code at #5:
5. <?php
if ($single) {
the_content();
}
else {//no content, nothing.
}
?>
6. Update File. Done.