How to Add a Custom WordPress Post Title Truncate Length
| Published 09.05.2012 by | Last modified 19.11.2019 |
This snippet will allow you to define a custom truncate length of the WordPress post title in your template files.
Instructions
Add this to your functions.php file.
function cptl_title($char) {
$title = get_the_title($post->ID);
$title = substr($title,0,$char);
echo $title;
}
And then add this to your template file where you want the post title to be displayed.
<?php cptl_title(100); ?>*note – the number 100 is the characters allowed before title is being truncated. You can define any differently character amount on each post title thru-out your templates.
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