Hi there, I’m new to the discourse forum software and this meta forum, so apologies in advance if this topic already excists or if I placed it in the wrong section. On a forum that I moderate there are several subsections. Some of which still have the standard about thread in them, which looks some…

Make a second post? Put the first paragraph (that you want to appear on the category page) in the original post generated by discourse, and then put more details in a second post.

Make the first paragraph the recommended length as specified in the help text you quoted?

I didn’t exceed the length, was just wondering how to make sure only the first paragraph shows up. Anyways, I’m going with @jomaxro ’s solution. Thanks for the fast reply guys! You helped me out!

I believe @sam also added custom tag for specifying excerpt exactly as well.

Yeah this: [image] Improving pinned topic excerpts feature 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, surpr…

Setting up the pinned 'about' threads for forum subsections

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sam (Sam Saffron) December 7, 2015, 8:35pm 6

Yeah this:

It should still work, try it out

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