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1. Bradley Wint
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Hey guys, Im pulling an RSS feed from my forum to display on my homepage. It displays the titles correctly, but I want to truncate the number of characters per post so it doenst take up a long section if the title is long. How do I do that? here is the code Im using

   <?php // Get RSS Feed(s)
   include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/feed.php');
   
   $rss = fetch_feed('http://examplesite.com/rss');
   if (!is_wp_error( $rss ) ) :
   
       $maxitems = $rss->get_item_quantity(5); 
   
       $rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $maxitems);
   endif;
   ?>
   
   <ul>
       <?php if ($maxitems == 0) echo '<li>No items.</li>';
       else
   
       foreach ( $rss_items as $item ) : ?>
       <li>
           <a href='<?php echo $item->get_permalink(); ?>'
           title='<?php echo 'Posted '.$item->get_date('j F Y | g:i a'); ?>'>
           <?php echo $item->get_title(); ?></a>
       </li>
       <?php endforeach; ?>
   </ul>

2. Bradley Wint
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   anyone?

3. Bradley Wint
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   anyone?

4. cruxwireweb
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   anyone? I need this answer too.

5. dome90uk
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   SOLVED - Found this ... worked on 3.1

   Also, you can truncate the number of characters that appear in the content of each feed item by using PHP’s substr() function:

   <?php echo substr($item->get_description(), 0, 180); ?>

   REF - import and display rss feeds in wordpress

   Also, limiting the number of words shown in the_content / the_excerpt

6. dsided
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thank you very much!

7. cruxwireweb
   Member
   Posted 1 year ago #

   Thanks!

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