[wp-hackers] Re: post title excerpts/special char lengths..

[spencerp]

I think I got it now.. seems to be working :D ... From this guy's blog 
here after google searching..
http://www.willoller.com/limiting-title-and-excerpt-length-with-wordpress/

MINUS Excerpt Reloaded plugin activated...  I slapped the below code in 
functions.php file:

<?php

function the_title2($before = '', $after = '', $echo = true, $length = 
false) {
         $title = get_the_title();
 
      if ( $length && is_numeric($length) ) {

             $title = substr( $title, 0, $length );

          }

        if ( strlen($title)> 0 ) {

             $title = apply_filters('the_title2', $before . $title . 
$after, $before, $after);

             if ( $echo )

                echo $title;

             else

                return $title;

          }

      }



?>

Then used this for in the index.php file:

<h1><a href="<?php the_permalink() ?>" rel="bookmark" title="Permanent 
Link to <?php the_title(); ?>"><?php the_title2('', '', true, '30') 
?></a></h1>

Now it's cutting the post's title off at 30 characters.. whee!! Oh God 
I'm awesome.. I just can't stress it enough.. lol.. hahaha

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