How to Add a Custom WordPress Post Title Truncate Length
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.