Hey folks! When you pin a post, a summary is displayed under it when on the Latest section. Unfortunately, the first line of my post displays the link and then the text of the post. This distorts the reading of the summary for the reader. In case it matters, I’m using official Discourse integratio…

Ah! That clarifies things. I don’t believe there is any way to change the topic excerpt via a setting. However, you can try this to specify the topic excerpt in the topic list: [image] Ability to custom define topic "preview text" you could explicitly mark begin and end excerpts in the first pos…

Pinned topic summary is using first-line link text instead of body text

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NateDhaliwal (Nate Dhaliwal) January 25, 2026, 11:02pm 2

Does this happen in safe mode? Does the link go to the WP post or the Discourse topic?

Thanks.

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Pinned topic summary is using first-line link text instead of body text

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