Wordpress Titles: If Longer Than 50 Characters, Show Ellipsis

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. Be

Answer 1

You're checking the length of the string "the_title()". Remove the quotes, and it will probably work (I'm not 100% sure of the difference between the_title() and get_the_title(), as I haven't used Wordpress in a while -- you might have to switch that around too):

 50) { ?>
                
            
                ...
               

or maybe

 50) { ?>
                
            
                ...