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user3852799
user3852799

Reputation:

How to shorten my title lenth by characters via php code wordpress

I want to trim my title length on related posts and i tried several variations and no one works. I have now this

<p style="margin-top:-4px !important"><a class="title"  href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" title="<?php the_title(); ?>">**<?php echo short_title('...', 3); ?>**</a></p>

</li>
<?php

This short_title trims words(now i have value 3 it shows me first 3 words) and I want just characters maybe 20,30 . How do I do this?

Upvotes: 0

Views: 481

Answers (2)

Andriy B.
Andriy B.

Reputation: 451

The better way is not to truncate the string, but use CSS features to show ... in case of long text, but leave the text unchanged, because for different fonts/browsers/devivices is impossible to get the same results.

css is:

   .long {
      width: 50px;
   }

   .long span {
      padding-top: 4px;
      display: block;
      white-space: nowrap;
      text-overflow: ellipsis;
      overflow: hidden;
    }

html:

    <div class="long"><span>Very long text should be truncated</span></div>

Upvotes: 0

Muhammad Ahmed
Muhammad Ahmed

Reputation: 481

Use substr()

$title = 'some text here for example';
$newTitle =  (strlen($title)>20)?substr($title,0,20):$title;

Upvotes: 1

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