How to display a posts title as an excerpt?

  • NovaSev

    (@novasev)


    10 years, 1 month ago

    Okay, to clarify – I don’t want the posts content in an excerpt – rather the actual title that shows up in recent posts to be cut down.

    There may be another option available as well – I’m open to any suggestions. The thing is that I can’t reduce the font-size further because it will be too small. So what’s should I do here?

    I’ve tried searching but all I can find is dealing with the posts content.

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  • caefavsvs

    (@awa4000)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    <?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_title(), 3 ); ?> Change the number 3 in the code to the number of words from your title that you want.

    Thread Starter NovaSev

    (@novasev)

    10 years, 1 month ago

    This is the code I have for recent posts in my footer – it’s not an added widget, just added custom. Where would I place the code you just mentioned? Sorry, I’m crap with PHP still – trying to learn though 🙂

    <?php
   $args = array( 'numberposts' => '7' );
   $recent_posts = wp_get_recent_posts( $args );
   foreach( $recent_posts as $recent ){
	echo '<li><a href="' . get_permalink($recent["ID"]) . '" title="Take a look at '.esc_attr($recent["post_title"]).'" >' .   $recent["post_title"].'</a> </li> ';
   }
?>
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