[Support request] truncate title too long

[anand]

how to cut titles which are too long, say more than 60 characters and append … trailing to that title

[David]

Hi there,

it means filtering the_title function, which is a bit of a pain as that function can be used in more places then just the post title. But you can try this PHP snippet:

function archive_title_length( $title ) {
    $max = 60;
    if( strlen( $title ) > $max && !is_admin() && !is_single() ) {
        return substr( $title, 0, $max ). " …";
    } else {
        return $title;
    }
}

add_filter( 'the_title', 'archive_title_length');

This should only apply to frontend archives.

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