Question

I have a WordPress site with titles, and if the title has more than 50 characters I need to add an ellipsis (...) at the end of the title and stop the title at 50 characters.

Below is the PHP I am writing but it seems to not work correctly.

<?php if (strlen("the_title()") > 50) { ?>
    <?php the_title(); ?>
<?php } if (strlen("the_title()") < 50) { ?>
    <?php echo substr(get_the_title(), 0, 50); ?>...
<?php } ?>   

Answer 1

The mb_strimwidth function does exactly that.

echo mb_strimwidth(get_the_title(), 0, 50, '...');