Ever wanted to display the title of a post somewhere but limit the amount of characters that are shown? For instance, this post has a very long title, and if I were to use <?php echo the_title() ?> it would show as follows: Limit the characters that display on the_title.
That may not fit well on one line in lets say a widget or small width div. So here is a neat trick you can use:
<?php $title = the_title('','',FALSE); echo substr($title, 0, 11); ?> Pretty simple huh, just note the bold numbers, in this case 11 character would output like this: Limit the c.
Thanks to Tattershall Way for this snippet.
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Cheers. Very useful. :-)
I don't suppose could help me with adding a little extra to this. I want to put "..." at the end if the amount of chars in the title exceeds the cut off point.
Hmm, not really sure how to print that if, and only if characters are less than whats printed. May want to chack out pnp.net