PHP Character Limit

  • Resolved ajcke

    (@emerinea)


    17 years, 1 month ago

    I have posts in the a category of “news” posting to my sidebar.php. I would like to limit the number of characters by replacing <?php the_content(); ?> with something that will limit the number of characters and number of posts. I’ve tried some plugins but they limit the number of characters for my posts on my main page. Also some of the plugins conflict with the image I want displayed in each post.

    Here’s the webpage: http://blog.hardinnorthern.org

    Any suggestions?

    Thanks,
    Andy

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  • Thread Starter ajcke

    (@emerinea)

    17 years, 1 month ago

    I figured out how to limit the number of posts. I’m just not sure about limiting the number of characters.

    Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)

    (@ashfame)

    17 years ago

    Yes I am also looking for the same thing. Can WP do that on its own or I have to strip out some content manually with php code?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years ago

    Limiting the number of posts could be as simple as using the showposts argument with template tag, query_posts().

    In a post loop

    <?php
echo 'truncated post content to 50 chars ' . substr($post->content,0,50);
?>
    Ashish Kumar (Ashfame)

    (@ashfame)

    17 years ago

    Now I have placed my custom function in the functions.php but it seems that the file is not being loaded. I am working on localhost. Any idea?

    MichaelH

    (@michaelh)

    17 years ago

    ashfame – please start another topic with your question.

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