Jul
16
2010
Shorten Your Post Titles in WordPress
This is not a function that you would need to use often, but I came across a reason to use it recently and I thought it might be a good idea to share it. All it does is limit the number of words in your title, just in case you don’t want it to wrap onto a second line. I used it in the featured slideshow on Magazine Premium since the size of the boxes is fixed.
Include this in your functions.php file between the PHP tags:
function short_title($after = '', $length) { $mytitle = explode(' ', get_the_title(), $length); if (count($mytitle)>=$length) { array_pop($mytitle); $mytitle = implode(" ",$mytitle). $after; } else { $mytitle = implode(" ",$mytitle); } return $mytitle; } |
Then you can use it within the WordPress loop like this:
<?php echo short_title('...', 8); ?> |
If you would rather count by characters instead of just words, you can add this function to your functions.php file instead of the one above:
function short_title($after = null, $length) { $mytitle = get_the_title(); $size = strlen($mytitle); if($size>$length) { $mytitle = substr($mytitle, 0, $length); $mytitle = explode(' ',$mytitle); array_pop($mytitle); $mytitle = implode(" ",$mytitle).$after; } return $mytitle; } |
Wow, you read my mind
this is exactly what I needed!
Thanks so much
Loy
Thank you again…I’ve googled so many times for this solution to no avail. I’ve actually accomplished what I wanted in less than 5 minutes.