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

WordPress has built in function "wp_trim_words()" to trim the sentences based on the number of words you provide, If you want to trim by words then this function may help you.

https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words

to trim the title longer than 5 words you can do this

'.$short_title.'';
?>