{"id":178762,"date":"2014-05-26T16:02:29","date_gmt":"2014-05-26T23:02:29","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/tri.be\/support\/forums\/topic\/community-form-need-excerpt-how-to-add-instructions-to-users\/"},"modified":"2014-06-24T12:01:24","modified_gmt":"2014-06-24T19:01:24","slug":"community-form-need-excerpt-how-to-add-instructions-to-users","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/community-form-need-excerpt-how-to-add-instructions-to-users\/","title":{"rendered":"Community form: need excerpt, how to add instructions to users"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Hi, A couple of things: <\/p>\n<p>1. FRONT END COMMUNITY FORM \/ EXCERPT<br \/>\nThe front end add event form for Community has a description editor, but not an excerpt editor (as it is on the backend). This will cause an issue because our users will enter really long descriptions (even if we tell them not to), which will make list view too overloaded with content. Is there a way to get an excerpt to display in the form, and to have it be what displays in list view?<br \/>\n2. FRONT END COMMUNITY FORM \/ ADD INSTRUCTIONS<br \/>\nIs there a way to add instructions to the front end community form?<br \/>\nThanks!<br \/>\n-Regina<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-178762","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry"],"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO plugin v25.2 - https:\/\/yoast.com\/wordpress\/plugins\/seo\/ -->\n<title>Community form: need excerpt, how to add instructions to users -<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/theeventscalendar.com\/support\/forums\/topic\/community-form-need-excerpt-how-to-add-instructions-to-users\/\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Community form: need excerpt, how to add instructions to users -\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"Hi, A couple of things: 1. 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