Hi, When my members choose to watch a category, then another posts new topic, they will receive an email for that. But here is the current email content: Subject: Topic title Content: The whole topic. I want to edit the template of this email to: Subject: “A new topic has arrived…” Content: J…

The template is called User Posted

Oh I see it. But how to limit the content to summary? or trim it down to around 100 words?

I don’t believe that is currently possible.

It’s so sad. Normally people don’t read long email, so I wish to have a email content like: Subject: New topic on category that you like Content: – The Title – Some words from the content… A link to read the whole topic…

You can’t do this yet as the emails are coded by the core with variables that are defined in the core. You will need plugin to override what these variables output in the email template. I am hoping that Discourse develops something similar to Wordpress Filters, so that it will be possible for anyon…

Didn’t @neil just add an optional setting to limit content of posts in email @hawk ?

Just a small update on this one… [image] How to shorten email notification excerpts There’s the post excerpts in emails admin setting that should be of use here: [post excerpts in emails] And you can also adjust the excerpt length using the post excerpt maxlength setting too: [post excerpt …

Where to edit email template of watched category and trim the content to 100 words?

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JammyDodger February 26, 2023, 8:40am 9

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Where to edit email template of watched category and trim the content to 100 words?

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