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

Add this to your "functions.php" file in your theme folder....

function the_title_excerpt($before = '', $after = '', $echo = true, $length = false) 
  {
    $title = get_the_title();

    if ( $length && is_numeric($length) ) {
        $title = substr( $title, 0, $length );
    }

    if ( strlen($title)> 0 ) {
        $title = apply_filters('the_title_excerpt', $before . $title . $after, $before, $after);
        if ( $echo )
            echo $title;
        else
            return $title;
    }
}

then call the title like as follows