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

<?php the_title_excerpt('', '...', true, '50'); ?>

Answer 2

Single Code, 100% working

PHP Function mb_strimwidth() | Wordpress Function get_the_title()

<?php 
echo mb_strimwidth( get_the_title(), 0, 100, '...' ); 
?>

Answer 3

<?php 
$title  = the_title('','',false);
if(strlen($title) > 60):
    echo trim(substr($title, 0, 65)).'...';
else:
    echo $title;
endif;
?>

Answer 4

The mb_strimwidth function does exactly that.

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

Answer 5

Take the_title() out of quotes when using the strlen() function.

Answer 6

You're checking the length of the string "the_title()". Remove the quotes, and it will probably work (I'm not 100% sure of the difference between the_title() and get_the_title(), as I haven't used Wordpress in a while -- you might have to switch that around too):

<?php if (strlen(the_title()) > 50) { ?>
                <?php the_title(); ?>
            <?php } if (strlen(the_title()) < 50) { ?>
                <?php echo substr(get_the_title(), 0, 50); ?>...
            <?php } ?>   

or maybe

<?php if (strlen(get_the_title()) > 50) { ?>
                <?php the_title(); ?>
            <?php } if (strlen(get_the_title()) < 50) { ?>
                <?php echo substr(get_the_title(), 0, 50); ?>...
            <?php } ?>