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Md Astamul Haque
Md Astamul Haque

Reputation: 51

How to display the first character from a WordPress title

In WordPress we use the code <?php the_title(); ?> for displaying the title of a post. Now, I want to display only the first letter of the title in a different place. How can I do that?

I have tried this, but it doesn't work:

<?php $my_title = the_title(); ?>

<?php
    $first_char = $my_title[0];
    echo $first_char;
?>

Upvotes: 0

Views: 1116

Answers (2)

ArtisticPhoenix
ArtisticPhoenix

Reputation: 21681

You can simply do this:

<?php echo get_the_title()[0]; ?>

As long as the title is not empty. Or:

 <?php echo substr(get_the_title(),0,1); ?>

 <?php echo preg_replace('/^(\w).+/','\1',get_the_title()); ?>

 <?php echo str_split(get_the_title())[0]; ?>

 <?php printf("%.1s", get_the_title()); ?> //echo sprintf

etc...

Or if you want to get complicated, you can use a "stream" yea!:

   $f = fopen('php://memory', 'w+');
   fputs($f, get_the_title());
   rewind($f);
   echo fgetc($f);
   fclose($f);

LOL - that was the hardest way I could think of, that does what it's supposed to and doesn't have any unnecessary steps (well, except fclose, but in this case we can recover the memory);

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Upvotes: 0

mujuonly
mujuonly

Reputation: 11841

// Get the first character.
// $firstCharacter = $string[0];

$my_title = get_the_title();


// Get the first character using substr.
$firstCharacter = substr($my_title, 0, 1);
echo $firstCharacter;

The the_title() function will print it by default if the echo parameter is not set to false. get_the_title() will retrieve the title.

Upvotes: 2

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