Only title/link for last posts on blog’s main page

I don’t know of a plugin that will do that, but it shouldn’t be too hard to modify your index.php file. If you are using a free theme, I would be glad to take a look.

Do you want the same pattern of posts on the second and following pages, or just on the first page? If different, what do you want on the pages after the first?

You should be able to do what you want by inserting one line of code in each of your template files (index.php, page.php, and single.php).

Change this:

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
         <p class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <?php comments_popup_link('&sect; <span class="commentcount">0</span>', '&sect; <span class="commentcount">1</span>', '&sect; <span class="commentcount">%</span>'); ?></p>

to this:

<h2><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent Link to <?php the_title_attribute(); ?>"><?php the_title(); ?></a></h2>
         <?php if (++$counter > 5) continue; ?>
         <p class="date"><?php the_time('F jS, Y') ?> <?php comments_popup_link('&sect; <span class="commentcount">0</span>', '&sect; <span class="commentcount">1</span>', '&sect; <span class="commentcount">%</span>'); ?></p>