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Hi guys I've searched this for too long and I am getting tired now. I need to set a limit on my post titles but I don't know how to do it. On google there are snippets of 300000000 codes to do the same thing but I don't understand where to put these and HOW. I am a total newbie. I am building my website with Elementor and I need the title to trim at an exact character limit. How do I do it? Please help me!!

Your question should be specific to WordPress. Generic PHP/JS/SQL/HTML/CSS questions might be better asked at Stack Overflow or another appropriate Stack Exchange network site. Third-party plugins and themes are off-topic for this site; they are better asked about at their developers' support routes.

Closed 4 years ago.

Hi guys I've searched this for too long and I am getting tired now. I need to set a limit on my post titles but I don't know how to do it. On google there are snippets of 300000000 codes to do the same thing but I don't understand where to put these and HOW. I am a total newbie. I am building my website with Elementor and I need the title to trim at an exact character limit. How do I do it? Please help me!!

• title
• limit
• characters

• 3rd party plugin dev support is off topic here, if a standard WP answer does not work for you, or this isn't a standard post title, then you'll need to ask Elementor support or go to an Elementor community to ask. If you already have a snippet though you should share that and ask where it goes – Tom J Nowell ♦ Commented Nov 17, 2020 at 19:06

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Exactly "where" may differ depending on your theme setup. However, there are some global-ish ways to do this if you want to tackle it that way.

add_filter( 'the_title', 'my_trim_words' );

function my_trim_words( $title )
{
    // limit to ten words
    return wp_trim_words( $title, 10, '' );
}

If you'd like to do this for a particular post type, you can do it like this:

add_filter( 'the_title', 'my_trim_words_by_post_type', 10, 2 );

function my_trim_words_by_post_type( $title, $post_id )
{
    $post_type = get_post_type( $post_id );

    if( 'product' == $post_type ) { 
        return $title;

    // limit to ten words
    return wp_trim_words( $title, 10, '' );
}

If it's within the theme templates (frontend files) that you're wanting to do this in very specific areas, you can use it this way in your templates:

<?php echo wp_trim_words( get_the_title(), 5 ); ?>