# Setting up the pinned 'about' threads for forum subsections

**URL:** https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-the-pinned-about-threads-for-forum-subsections/36373
**Category:** Support
**Created:** [6 Diciembre, 2015 11:56 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-the-pinned-about-threads-for-forum-subsections/36373 "2015-12-06T11:56:24Z")
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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: [7 Diciembre, 2015 20:35 UTC](https://meta.discourse.org/t/setting-up-the-pinned-about-threads-for-forum-subsections/36373/6 "2015-12-07T20:35:00Z")

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Yeah this:

> [@Improving pinned topic excerpts](https://meta.discourse.org/t/improving-pinned-topic-excerpts/17640/8):
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> I just added trivial support for cutting exceprts, was a fairly trivial change \<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.

It should still work, try it out

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