# Improving pinned topic excerpts

**URL:** <https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-pinned-topic-excerpts/17640>\
**Category:** Feature\
**Created:** [July 16, 2014, 5:55am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-pinned-topic-excerpts/17640 "2014-07-16T05:55:23Z")\
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**Author:** ![mcwumbly](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/mcwumbly/32/103861_2.png) [@mcwumbly](https://meta.discourse.org/u/mcwumbly)\
**Post date:** [September 1, 2014, 11:03pm UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-pinned-topic-excerpts/17640/12 "2014-09-01T23:03:06Z")

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Thanks for this. I just found that it only seems to work if the markup is at the beginning of the post. Would be nice if we could snip an excerpt from anywhere in the post.

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