# How can I keep post views on lists

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**Category:** Development\
**Created:** [February 4, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-keep-post-views-on-lists/254069 "2023-02-04T18:58:51Z")\
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**Author:** ![ProjeDEV](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/projedev/32/294219_2.png) [@ProjeDEV](https://meta.discourse.org/u/ProjeDEV)\
**Post date:** [February 4, 2023, 6:58pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-can-i-keep-post-views-on-lists/254069/1 "2023-02-04T18:58:51Z")

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Hi,  
We have a poetry forum. In a single post, it looks normal like a poem, but the excerpt display view becomes a paragraph or combined text style on the homepage or category listings. The original post views are lost. I tried different things, different themes or the “topic list previews” plugin didn’t work. How can I show excerpts like poetry (e.g. first three lines or max lines with excerpt length) on homepage or specific category page.  
Thanks for support.

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