# How to disable the 'embed\_truncate' setting

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [August 22, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988 "2016-08-22T09:34:36Z")
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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 9:34am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988/1 "2016-08-22T09:34:36Z")

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Is there a way to deselect the `embed_truncate` setting? The problem is that it’s showing even when the full post has been sent.

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/6/a/6ae93c2963f00c03476228ace76b615feb9e818d.png)

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 6:04pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988/2 "2016-08-22T18:04:01Z")

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You can disable it in the admin section at any time. However, that won’t update posts that were already imported. The only solution to that is to reimport them via the rails console.

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 7:06pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988/3 "2016-08-22T19:06:23Z")

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Where is the setting for it?

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 7:30pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988/4 "2016-08-22T19:30:34Z")

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It’s in `/admin/customize/embedding` with the other embedding options.

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### Author: ![simon](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/simon/32/339122_2.png) [@simon](https://meta.discourse.org/u/simon)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 7:41pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988/5 "2016-08-22T19:41:18Z")

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I haven’t added any hosts to my site - I’m publishing posts with the wp-discourse plugin - but am still getting this:

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/3/2/328a8ded7bacb4c374c0a238024a1a85cde97c72.png)

 ![](https://global.discourse-cdn.com/meta/original/3X/7/b/7b1d75351e538ae52f33ef999d2fa092ddc8dbca.png)

I can see how this function could be useful for when a post excerpt is published through the wp-discourse plugin, but could there be a setting added to `admin/site_settings/category/posting` to make it possible to disable it for sites that are using the wp-discourse plugin to publish full posts to Discourse?

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988/6 "2016-08-22T19:53:25Z")

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Aha! I didn’t realize that setting was used by wp-discourse without setting up embedding customizations. I’ve un-hidden the setting and it should be alterable via site settings now. (It’s still editable on the embedding tab too.)

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2ce9d3d733e0848c6afd7a29e153e705e635152f](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/2ce9d3d733e0848c6afd7a29e153e705e635152f)

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### Author: ![eviltrout](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/eviltrout/32/5275_2.png) [@eviltrout](https://meta.discourse.org/u/eviltrout)
#### Post date: [August 22, 2016, 7:53pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/how-to-disable-the-embed-truncate-setting/48988/7 "2016-08-22T19:53:30Z")

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