Title: Simple Social-plugin problem
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Simple Social-plugin problem

 *  [ramo_and](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramo_and/)
 * (@ramo_and)
 * [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-social-plugin-problem/)
 * Hello!
 * I have installed the plugin Simple Social to add twitter and facebook widgets
   to the posts on the site I’m designen. The posts is supposed to be news so I’ve
   edited the code to make it only show the first 40 words of the post. If i do 
   this I get a bug from the Simple Social plugin if the news is shorter than 40
   words. Then it adds the word Tweet to the news.
 * **Example:**
    _News over 40 words_ Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing
   and typesetting industry. Lorem Ipsum has been the industry’s standard dummy 
   text ever since the 1500s, when an unknown printer took a galley of type and 
   scrambled it to make a … Read more →
 * _News under 40 words_
    Lorem Ipsum is simply dummy text of the printing and typesetting
   industry. Tweet
 * The changes I’ve made in the plugin is to add the following code in the bottom
   of the php-file:
 * add_filter(‘the_excerpt’, ‘simple_social’);
 * This i made because the widgets won’t show on the index-page unless I do this.
 * So, does anyone know how to fix this bug?

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 * [simple](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/simple/)
 * [social](https://wordpress.org/support/topic-tag/social/)

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 * Last reply from: [ramo_and](https://wordpress.org/support/users/ramo_and/)
 * Last activity: [15 years, 4 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/simple-social-plugin-problem/)
 * Status: not resolved

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