Title: Widget shoing excerpt?
Last modified: August 30, 2016

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# Widget shoing excerpt?

 *  Resolved [jamesrandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesrandom/)
 * (@jamesrandom)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-shoing-excerpt/)
 * I am just trying out a few different testimonials plugins. This one seems to 
   do everything I need.
 * However, when I use the widget to display one random testimonial in a side bar,
   it displays the full text rather than an excerpt. Even though the options are
   set to just show an excerpt (and the list shortcode only shows excerpts).
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/sola-testimonials/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/sola-testimonials/)

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 *  Thread Starter [jamesrandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesrandom/)
 * (@jamesrandom)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-shoing-excerpt/#post-6846731)
 * Also, the widget is using the 3 column display set for the list, even though 
   it is only displaying a single testimonial. This means the text is squashed into
   1/3rd of the available space.
 *  Thread Starter [jamesrandom](https://wordpress.org/support/users/jamesrandom/)
 * (@jamesrandom)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-shoing-excerpt/#post-6846790)
 * I was wrong about the first point: it is showing an excerpt in the widget but
   because it was displayed as if there were three columns (with one word per line!)
   it looked very long.
 * It would be nice to be able to set the length of the excerpt differently for 
   the widget and the list.
 *  Plugin Author [SolaPlugins](https://wordpress.org/support/users/solaplugins/)
 * (@solaplugins)
 * [10 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/widget-shoing-excerpt/#post-6846897)
 * Hi there.
 * Sorry for only getting back to you now.
 * We’ll definitely consider this for a future release, thank you for the suggestion
   🙂

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 * Status: resolved