Limit number of characters within titles?

Hi @jh20001, yes you can do it but it would either take some fancy work with filters or a custom template. Here’s a sample of a template to get you started, based off the “Simple” example template provided by YARPP:

<?php
/*
YARPP Template: Short Titles
Author: YARPP Team
Description: A simple example YARPP template.
*/
function yarpp_trim_title($title){
	$max = 50;
	if(strlen($title) > $max) {
		$title = substr( $title, 0, $max ) . '&hellip;';
	}
	return $title;
}
?><h3>Related Posts</h3>
<?php if (have_posts()):?>
	<ol>
		<?php while (have_posts()) : the_post(); ?>
			<li><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark"><?php echo yarpp_trim_title(get_the_title()); ?></a><!-- (<?php the_score(); ?>)--></li>
		<?php endwhile; ?>
	</ol>
<?php else: ?>
	<p>No related posts.</p>
<?php endif; ?>

To use it, create a file in your theme’s root folder called ‘yarpp-template-short-titles.php`, and paste that into it. Then you should see a new custom YARPP template called “Short Titles”.

Let me know if you have questions!

Great, thanks. I’ll give it a try. If it works, I’ll build it up to something nice. I’m good at the visuals side of things, but when it gets deeper into the code, I brace for help ??

• This reply was modified 4 years, 1 month ago by jh20001.

Update: Works well enough, thank you. I see sometimes a title might be cut to early … (without hitting the max), but it’s fine. It seems to be rare and may only be happening when the following line after it hits the limit. Either it works and looks nice and I was able to format around it to match the theme of things. Thanks again ??

@jh20001 thanks for confirming!

btw, you can also use 100% CSS to restrict title length. For example:
https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/truncate-string-with-ellipsis/

Update: Actually, I had to revert back. For some reason, the “preview” screen for a new post is thrown out of whack when this is in use. Switching back, the preview screen is fine. Everything else was ok (the actual submitted post and everything else). It’s just the preview page that was affected. Really strange.

I may have to try the CSS approach