# Is there a way to make part of a post visible to a user group only?

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**Created:** [July 5, 2023, 5:50am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-part-of-a-post-visible-to-a-user-group-only/270584 "2023-07-05T05:50:05Z")\
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**Author:** ![pfaffman](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/meta/user_avatar/meta.discourse.org/pfaffman/32/120154_2.png) [@pfaffman](https://meta.discourse.org/u/pfaffman)\
**Post date:** [July 5, 2023, 8:03am UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/is-there-a-way-to-make-part-of-a-post-visible-to-a-user-group-only/270584/4 "2023-07-05T08:03:42Z")

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> [@simon](#):
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> publish the first paragraph (or whatever seems appropriate as an excerpt) to a topic in a category that’s accessible to both group A and B and publish the full topic to a subcategory that’s only accessible to group A users.

This seems like a workable solution for a plugin. A category custom field would indicate a category for the excerpt. A `on_create` callback would create the excerpt topic in the other category. A more sophisticated version would use a topic custom field and a `before_save` to track the excerpt topic and could update it when the source was edited.

If you’d like for me to develop such a plugin please contact me.

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