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1. Anonymous
   Unregistered
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Hi!
   I've got get_recent_posts set up on my page, in the same area of the menu where the "categories" and other links are.
   The problem I am having is that often my post titles are long and so in the "Recent Posts" section they wrap, and take up 2 or 3 lines. I'd like to be able to have it display just the first X characters, or first Y groups of characters (i.e. words).
   Is there any way to to that?
   Thank you!
   Anne

2. shedevil
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Oops..sorry! I wasn't logged in...I'm really not an anonymous coward, that above post was from me.
   Thanks.
   Anne

3. Joshua Sigar
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Where do you get that function get_recent_posts from. You could always modify the source code.

4. midori
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   If it's the plugin, you can modify. I set the length to 3 words....

5. Mark (podz)
   Support Maven
   Posted 7 years ago #

   http://mtdewvirus.com/wp-hacks/
   I believe it's one from there.....

6. shedevil
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   It is one from http://mtdewvirus.com/wp-hacks/ <--there...and if someone could please tell me how to modify it I'd be forever grateful! (I'm looking at the code now but it's non-obvious.)
   Thanks!

7. shedevil
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   Cypher...thank you thank you Thank You THANK YOU!!!!
   Oh, and I just learned to never just cut and paste code from a webpage right into PHP..those invisible line feeds will get you every time. :-) I hand ported each line individually. Works a treat.
   THANK YOU!!!
   Anne

8. Cypher
   Member
   Posted 7 years ago #

   You're welcome. I had to add some extra whitespace in the code to make it show up as code as opposed to being interpreted as HTML syntax. So porting by hand is best. :)
   Regards

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