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You mean you want the first X characters or words from a first post?

This is possible. I am playing with this myself so users of my bbPortal plugin can use a read more button on the portal if they want to. It wil count the first 100 words and then ad a read more link.

Think this is something you want (without the read more link). This can be done with a plugin and a new function. I haven’t got something working yet else I would post it here…