How can I make it so that the items that I pin Globally have less text under them. They take up a lot of space on the page, and I want to leave some space open so people don’t have to scroll through the pinned Topics every time they want to get to the other topics. How do I shorten the amount of words here? I’m sure there’s a setting for it somewhere…
Filter for excerpt in the Admin. There are several settings you can adjust, including hiding the excerpt on mobile view.
/admin/site_settings/category/all_results?filter=excerpt
Uncheck Show excerpt on pinned topics in mobile view.
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In that case your option is to reduce the post excerpt maxlength back to the default 300 characters or play with it to see what works for you.
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I set it to that and it changed nothing
Correction: adjust the topic excerpt maxlength instead of post. The default is 220.
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That still didn’t change anything…
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Well, you’re right. I can’t get the expected behavior, either. The only change that makes any difference is the show pinned excerpt mobile setting.
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topic excerpt maxlength should work on new topics, and I believe you’ll need a rebake for it to work on existing topics.
A rebake of all posts can be done via the command line:
cd /var/discourse
./launcher enter app
rake posts:rebake
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Thank you, I apologize. And just one last quick question, where would I put this command for it to work?
You need to be able to access the server where your site is hosted via ssh.
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OK, thanks. I’ll have to contact discourse hosting, who runs my website in order to do that. Thank you for your help