Topic List Excerpts

[david (David Taylor)]

	Summary	Topic List Excerpts allows you to enable excerpts for unpinned topics (by default, Discourse only displays topic excerpts for pinned topics).
	Preview	Preview on theme creator
	Repository Link	https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-excerpts
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Install this theme component

Works great alongside Topic List Thumbnails in “list” mode!

The excerpts themselves are generated by Discourse Core, using the same logic as the excerpts of ‘pinned’ topics. If you have a query / suggestion about how the excerpts are built, please make a new support topic.

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Tip: you can keep line breaks in excerpts by adding this CSS to your theme:

.topic-list .topic-excerpt {
    white-space: pre-line;
}

Be aware that results may look off depending on the posts’ contents.

[Paracelsus]

Great, a blog-like topic listing (together with Topic List Thumbnails Component)!

Can it be restricted by category like the other component?

[david (David Taylor)]

Sure, I just added a category setting:

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-excerpts/commit/aed85ba07007d38fe98de8889e3b155c69aeb812

[Paracelsus]

Thanks, much appreciated.

I also take the chance to report that there is some kind of incompatibility with the Topic Thumbnails component, since the images appear twice for each topic in the topic list (topic list option on thumbnails component + topic excerpts component).

[david (David Taylor)]

@Paracelsus

some kind of incompatibility with the Topic Thumbnails component

You’re right, sorry about that. Should be fixed now

https://github.com/discourse/discourse-topic-excerpts/commit/301f77e50c8ed231d7e4c8cb6ce69d35c7e06707

[downey (Michael Downey)]

Love this component; thank you! Is there any way to adjust the word/character length of the excerpts displayed in topic lists? (Never mind, I found the topic excerpt maxlength site setting, adjusted it, and rebuilt HTML for the topic posts in question.)

[th21]

The category setting works but the tag setting is not working on the latest discoures.

[david (David Taylor)]

@th21 tag handling should now be fixed - sorry for the delay!

[Ryan121]

Hi,why the read more is grey in my site but in yours is blue, how can i chane the color?

[Arkshine]

Hi, you can use CSS to customize.

For example, using the predefined color for links. Though, you can provide the color you want.

.topic-excerpt-more {
    color: var(--tertiary);
}

[digitaldominica]

Hi, this component gets rendered on the discourse docs plugin page and makes the excerpt clickable to the url of the discourse discussion not the doc url, is there anyway to avoid this from happening?

[David_Ghost (quimera)]

Hi, it’s possible to show the latest post instead of the first post?