How to limit words in widget?

Hi,
it would be best to limit the title length with CSS, to do that you can add the code below in wp-admin / Appearance / Customize / Additional CSS panel

span.adverts-widget-recent-title {
    width: 200px;
    height: 20px;
    overflow: hidden;
}

Just adjust the 200px and 20px to values which would suite your website best.

Thanks .. but this not solve the issue, it is trimming the last word.

I am not sure what are you trying to do? Can you paste a link to a page where you are having this problem and let me know which Advert is causing an issue, that would be helpful.

What I mean that I need with CSS will cut the word (hide part of the word) as I set the width of the span. The better way to truncate the title is by counting the number of the words, then set how many words to display.

So you want to have for example only one line of text in the title in the Recent Ads widget?

If so then the CSS code above i pasted will do that, the CSS (as far as i know) cannot count the number of words, but it can hide the text which does not fit inside a container.

If you want trim the title with PHP then you can create your own versiof of the Recent Ads widget, to do that:

1. copy the wpadverts/includes/class-widget-ads.php to your theme or child-theme folder.

2. in the new file change the class Adverts_Widget_Ads to something else for example class My_Adverts_Widget_Ads, change the values in __construct() function and modify the title display in widget() function.

3. finally in your theme functions.php file add the below code

add_action( "init", function() {
  include_once dirname( __FILE__ ) . '/class-widget-ads.php';
  register_widget( "My_Adverts_Widget_Ads" );
} );

This will register your own custom version of the Recent Ads widget.