Easily display post titles with a custom length – CodeRevolution

If you want to be able to easily display only the first X characters of your post title, I git something in store that might interest you. Just read this recipe and enjoy!

The first thing to do is to create the function. Open your functions.php file and paste this code:

  function ODD_title($char) {          $title = get_the_title($post->ID);          $title = substr($title,0,$char);          echo $title; } 

Now, you can use the function on your theme files. Just pass how many characters you want to display as a parameter. In the following exemple, only the first 20 chars of the title will be displayed:

 <?php ODD_title(20); ?> 

Thanks to Orange Dev Design for the tip!