theinfinityes

nevermind. this is what I needed:

https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/338367?replies=5

actually, that code still gave me some trouble, turning some of the quotes into a’s with ^’s over them. turns out the htmlentities() function is unneccessary.

this code seems to work perfectly, for anyone else wanting to do this.

function short_title() {
$mytitleorig = get_the_title();
$title = html_entity_decode($mytitleorig, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); 

$limit = "49";
$pad="...";

if(strlen($title) >= ($limit+3)) {
$title = substr($title, 0, $limit) . $pad; }

echo $title;
}

got it. used

function short_title() {
$mytitleorig = get_the_title();
$html_decode_title = html_entity_decode($mytitleorig, ENT_QUOTES, "UTF-8"); 

$limit = "49";
$pad="...";

if(strlen($html_decode_title) >= ($limit+3)) {
$html_decode_title = substr($html_decode_title, 0, $limit) . $pad; }
$title = utf8_encode(htmlentities($html_decode_title));
echo $title;
}

thanks for the help man. ??

ahhh, i thought if i put them in as code form they wouldn’t convert.

&# 039 ; and
&# 8217 ;

sorry they show up as
'
and
’

right in the browser.

almost works perfectly.. it solved the problem for the brackets, and all lines are now equal length, but the apostrophes are still giving me trouble. they now show up right in the browser as ’ or ' instead of ‘

also tried

function short_title() {
	$mytitleorig = get_the_title();
	$mytitlehtml = htmlentities($mytitleorig);
	$title = html_entity_decode($mytitlehtml);

$limit = "49";
$pad="...";

if(strlen($title) <= $limit) {
echo $title;
} else {
$title = substr($title, 0, $limit) . $pad;
echo $title;
}
}

Thanks, I think that’s on the right path. I’m having trouble implementing it though. This is what I tried:

function short_title($after = '', $length) {
	$mytitleorig = get_the_title();
	$mytitlehtml = htmlentities($mytitleorig);
	$mytitle = html_entity_decode($mytitlehtml);

	if ( mb_strlen($mytitle ) > $length ) {
	$mytitle = mb_substr($mytitle,0,$length);
	echo $mytitle . $after;
	} else {
	echo $mytitle;
	}
}

any ideas?

i had the same problem, it seems to be an issue with your servers php memory limits. i fixed the problem by uploading a php.ini file containing the single line:
memory_limit = 128M
to the main wordpress folder and the wp-admin folder (not sure which one did the trick…)

if that doesn’t help contact your host and ask how to increase your php memory.

good luck.

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