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Truncate Post Title

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You may want to adjust the titles according to your WordPress theme’s page width. It’ll display the titles beautifully according to your theme.

Instructions: Add the following code to the functions.php file of your WordPress theme.
Whenever you’re in need of truncating a title, simply call: Here (50) is the number of characters allowed before truncating.


<?php
function customTitle($limit) {
    $title = get_the_title($post->ID);
    if(strlen($title) > $limit) {
        $title = substr($title, 0, $limit) . '...';
    }
    
    echo $title;
}
?>

You may also enjoy adding page numbers to category, tag and post titles.

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