cut text after (x) amount of characters

Question

This is in wordpress (not sure that makes a difference)

This bit of php outputs the post title

Answer 1

in your theme file use something like this try using

then in the functions.php files, use this

function the_content_limit($max_char, $more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '')
 {

    $content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);
    $content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);
    $content = str_replace(']]>', ']]>', $content);
    $content = strip_tags($content);

   if (strlen($_GET['p']) > 0) 
{

      echo "
";
      echo $content;
      echo "
";
   }
   else if ((strlen($content)>$max_char) && ($espacio = strpos($content, " ", $max_char )))
 {

        $content = substr($content, 0, $espacio);
        $content = $content;
        echo "
";
        echo $content;
        echo "...";
        echo "
";
   }
   else {
      echo "
";
      echo $content;
      echo "
";
   }
}

good luck :)