PHP Character Limit

I figured out how to limit the number of posts. I’m just not sure about limiting the number of characters.

Yes I am also looking for the same thing. Can WP do that on its own or I have to strip out some content manually with php code?

Limiting the number of posts could be as simple as using the showposts argument with template tag, query_posts().

In a post loop

<?php
echo 'truncated post content to 50 chars ' . substr($post->content,0,50);
?>

Now I have placed my custom function in the functions.php but it seems that the file is not being loaded. I am working on localhost. Any idea?

ashfame – please start another topic with your question.