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Trim text in custom field (2 posts)

  1. nip0n
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    Is is possible to trim text from custom field?

    I wanna show part of text which is entered in custom field. Any way to show trimmed text in theme? Any function similar to wp_trim_excerpt?

  2. Stef Verbeeck
    Member
    Posted 1 year ago #

    I was looking for the same thing. The code below should do the trick:

    <?php
$trim_length = 5;  //desired length of text to display
$custom_field = 'my-custom-field-name';
$value = get_post_meta($post->ID, $custom_field, true);
if ($value) {
 echo rtrim(substr($value,0,$trim_length));
}
?>

    Worked perfectly for me!

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