Truncate function to limit Post title to specific number

[oloh]

Please I need help on how to truncate post titles?

Truncating, or shortening, so I can control the length of my blog post titles across the website. I'm using the BLEKATHLON theme. Thank you

[Edi]

You can use the PHP function substr:

https://www.php.net/manual/de/function.substr.php

For example add the following to the templates home.php and page.php (in the directory bl-themes/blekathon/php):

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<?php
   $title = $page->title();
   $title = substr($title, 0, 10);
?>

Then replace

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<?php echo $page->title(); ?>

with

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<?php echo $title; ?>

[oloh]

Thanks alot. It works.

Final one, How can I add '...' at the end please and only let it shows when it's more than 10.

Also, instead of character count I want to truncate/count word

Thanks

[Edi]

Final one, How can I add '...' at the end please and only let it shows when it's more than 10.

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<?php
   $title = $page->title();
   if (strlen($title) > 10) {
      $title = substr($title, 0, 10).'...';
   }				}
?>

Also, instead of character count I want to truncate/count word

This question is not Bludit related.

But it can be done with PHP:

https://www.php.net/manual/de/function. ... -count.php