{"id":1159089,"date":"2009-07-29T17:47:35","date_gmt":"2009-07-29T17:47:35","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/php-character-limit\/"},"modified":"2016-08-19T13:32:27","modified_gmt":"2016-08-19T13:32:27","slug":"php-character-limit","status":"closed","type":"topic","link":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/topic\/php-character-limit\/","title":{"rendered":"PHP Character Limit"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I have posts in the a category of &#8220;news&#8221; posting to my sidebar.php.  I would like to limit the number of characters by replacing &lt;?php the_content(); ?&gt; with something that will limit the number of characters and number of posts.  I&#8217;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.  <\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s the webpage: http:\/\/blog.hardinnorthern.org <\/p>\n<p>Any suggestions?<\/p>\n<p>Thanks,<br \/>\nAndy<\/p>\n","protected":false},"template":"","class_list":["post-1159089","topic","type-topic","status-closed","hentry","topic-tag-characters","topic-tag-limit","topic-tag-posts"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1159089","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/topic"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/topic\/1159089\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wordpress.org\/support\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1159089"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}