HELP – how to shorten the_title

  • Resolved taghaboy

    (@taghaboy)


    16 years, 1 month ago

    hello,
    How can i shorten my title <?php the_title(); ?> using this php script :

    <?php
function shorten_text($text, $length) {
    $shortened_text = substr($text, 0, $length);
    $shortened_text .= '…';
    return $shortened_text;
}
$title = 'Your very long title blah blah blah';
$shortened_title = shorten_text($title, 15);

print $shortened_title;
?>

    Thanks

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  • What do you mean by shorten the title? The title of the post? Just… type a shorter title.

    Thread Starter taghaboy

    (@taghaboy)

    Hi thisisedie,
    cause i’d like to short the title only in frontpage, and show the full in Read more.
    My goal is how can i insert the <?php the_title(); ?>
    in line 7 = ‘Your very long title blah blah blah‘

    Thanks

    Thread Starter taghaboy

    (@taghaboy)

    any help please.

    For starters, you need the_title in your code:

    <?php $ptitle = the_title("","", false); ?>

    Thread Starter taghaboy

    (@taghaboy)

    I’v find solution in https://www.wordpress-fr.net/support/viewtopic.php?pid=99796#p99796
    and thanks goes to BertrandB21

    <?php
      function shorten_text($text, $length) {
          $shortened_text = substr($text, 0, $length);
          $shortened_text .= '…';
          return $shortened_text;
      }
      if (have_posts()) : while (have_posts()) : the_post();
          $title=the_title('','',FALSE);
          $shortened_title = shorten_text($title, 15);
          print $shortened_title;
      ?>
          <?php endwhile;?>
        <?php else : ?>
          <h2>Introuvable</h2>
          <p>Désolé, mais vous cherchez quelque chose qui n'est pas ici.</p>
      <?php endif; ?>

    also for little code lover you can simply use this:
    <?php $thetitle = $post->post_title; echo substr($thetitle, 0, 26); ?>…

    Enjoy

    Found an even better php function to strip characters without loosing words:

    Copy and paste this into your theme_folder/functions.php file:

    //function to call and print shortened post title
function the_title_shorten($len,$rep='...') {
	$title = the_title('','',false);
	$shortened_title = textLimit($title, $len, $rep);
	print $shortened_title;
}

//shorten without cutting full words (Thank You Serzh 'https://us2.php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php#83585')
function textLimit($string, $length, $replacer) {
	if(strlen($string) > $length)
	return (preg_match('/^(.*)\W.*$/', substr($string, 0, $length+1), $matches) ? $matches[1] : substr($string, 0, $length)) . $replacer;
	return $string;
}

    And then call it in your template file:

    <?php the_title_shorten(15,'...'); ?>

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