Easily display post titles with a custom length

The first thing to do is to create the function. Open your functions.php file and paste this code:

 function ODD_title($char) {
         $title = get_the_title($post->ID);
         $title = substr($title,0,$char);
         echo $title;
}

Now, you can use the function on your theme files. Just pass how many characters you want to display as a parameter. In the following exemple, only the first 20 chars of the title will be displayed:

<?php ODD_title(20); ?>

Thanks to Orange Dev Design for the tip!

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