# 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: ![sam](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/sam/32/102149_2.png) [@sam](https://meta.discourse.org/u/sam)
#### Post date: [July 17, 2014, 11:35am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-pinned-topic-excerpts/17640/8 "2014-07-17T11:35:43Z")

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I just added trivial support for cutting exceprts, was a fairly trivial change

```plaintext
<span class='excerpt'>My excerpt here</span>

```

Allows you to control the excerpt as a mod. Will fix the word truncating as well, surprisingly it is ever so slightly more complicated than this change.

[https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/de7e6a95459f2e114c89bd1554e3a21861a3ffa7](https://github.com/discourse/discourse/commit/de7e6a95459f2e114c89bd1554e3a21861a3ffa7)

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