Tutorial: How to display short blog title in WordPress

As was recently pointed out to me by Andy in the comments, this post was quite out of date. I was fairly new to WordPress and had found a hacked way to modify the core of WordPress to return a short version of wp_title(); — but this is a method far from necessary and will always get removed when you update WordPress.

I opted to delete the out-of-date method, so that you only get the stuff that makes sense!

There is a simple script you can use to implement a short blog title without modifying the base WordPress code. Open up your functions.php file within your theme and add the following:

function short_title() {
 $title = get_the_title();
 $count = strlen($title);
 if ($count >= 25) {
 $title = substr($title, 0, 25);
 $title .= '...';
 }
 echo $title;
}

You can now reference short_title(); anywhere within the loop and call your short title. You can adjust how long your title is by changing the number “25″ to however many characters you want.

Tags: php, tutorial, wordpress

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