WordPress Titles: If Longer Than 50 Characters, Show Ellipsis

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1. The mb_strimwidth function does exactly that.

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

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2. WordPress has built in function "wp_trim_words()" to trim the sentences based on the number of words you provide, If you want to trim by words then this function may help you.

   https://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/wp_trim_words

   to trim the title longer than 5 words you can do this

   <?php
   $title = get_the_title();
   $short_title = wp_trim_words( $title, 5, '...' );
   echo '<h3>'.$short_title.'</h3>';
   ?>
   

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3. Single Code, 100% working

   PHP Function mb_strimwidth() | WordPress Function get_the_title()

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

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4. 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'); ?>
   

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5. 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 } ?>   
   

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

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

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8. echo (strlen(the_title())>50) ? (substr(the_title(), 0, 50) . "...") : the_title());
   

   This is a ternary operator. What it basically says is if the result from the_title() is more than 50 characters, then echo the first 50 characters and then the string .... Otherwise, just echo the result from the_title().

   You can read more about substr here: http://php.net/manual/en/function.substr.php

   You can find info on the ternary operator here: http://php.net/manual/en/language.operators.comparison.php

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9. use ‘strlen’

   eg: 
   
     <?php echo ((strlen(get_the_title())>50) ? (substr(get_the_title(), 0, 50) . "...") : get_the_title())?>
   

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