Wordpress Titles: If Longer Than 50 Characters, Show Ellipsis

Question

I have a wordpress site with titles, and if the title has more than 50 characters I need to add an ellipsis (...) at the end of the title and stop the title at 50 characters. Be

Answer 1

The mb_strimwidth function does exactly that.

echo mb_strimwidth(get_the_title(), 0, 50, '...');