Question

I’m trying to substring the title which it is called via the method the_title() .

Here are 2 things I did to do it but they both failed.

first try: <?php echo substr(the_title(),1,15) ?>

second try: <?php $new_title = the_title() ; echo substr($new_title, 1,15) ?>

They both didn’t work. when I used the second try I still get the full title.

Note: I’m trying to implement this on a WordPress script, also it’s for my php practice.

Thanks in Advance.

Answer 1

The function the_title() does not return the title as string but outputs it by default.

Use the_title('','', 1) which makes it return the title or the alternative function get_the_title() instead.