Limit the post title in the loop by Character

Description

Put the function in the functions.php and update the character count inside the loop for the title

HTML Source Code

                        
                          <?php the_title_excerpt('', '...', true, '50'); ?>

PHP Source Code

                        
                          <?php
function the_title_excerpt($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_title_excerpt', $before . $title . $after, $before, $after);
        if ( $echo )
            echo $title;
        else
            return $title;
    }
}
?>


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