Shorten forum description in forumhome
 

Some forums have very long description so I want to shorten them only in forumhome. But I cannot run any php function on the template. What should I do ?

Thanks

Why can you not run a plugin?

After you said writing a plugin, I searched information about how to write a plugin.

I opened the page that adding a new plugin. Then I click the place of plugin as forumhome_start because I need to shorten $forum[description] only in forumhome page. Then I gave it a name. And last I wrote a basic statement like below:

$forum[description] = "test";

I made the plugin active but it doesnt affect descriptions in the forumhome. I excepted to write test for all forum description. Whats the problem here ?