{"id":268,"date":"2012-11-30T14:25:43","date_gmt":"2012-11-30T14:25:43","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/?p=268"},"modified":"2014-05-25T12:33:39","modified_gmt":"2014-05-25T12:33:39","slug":"wordpress-limit-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/wordpress-limit-post\/","title":{"rendered":"WordPress Limit Post"},"content":{"rendered":"

\"\"<\/a>This function controls the maximum\u00a0amount of characters displayed for an entry on the main page. If the set limit is surpassed, the text on the entry will be chopped\u00a0to that amount of characters, otherwise the content will be showed unchanged.<\/p>\n

Add following code to functions.php in your theme folder<\/p>\n

\r\n\r\nfunction the_content_limit($max_char, $more_link_text = '(more...)', $stripteaser = 0, $more_file = '') {\r\n$content = get_the_content($more_link_text, $stripteaser, $more_file);\r\n\/\/ remove [caption] shortcode\r\n$content = preg_replace(&quot;\/\\[caption.*\\[\\\/caption\\]\/&quot;, '', $content);\r\n\/\/ short codes are applied\r\n\r\n$content = apply_filters('the_content', $content);\r\n$content = str_replace(']]&gt;', ']]&amp;gt;', $content);\r\n$content = strip_tags($content);\r\n\r\nif ((strlen($content)&gt;$max_char) &amp;&amp; ($espacio\u00a0= strpos($content, &quot; &quot;, $max_char ))) {\r\n$content = substr($content, 0, $espacio);\r\n$content = $content;\r\necho &quot;&lt;p&gt;&quot;;\r\necho $content;\r\necho &quot;...&quot;;\r\necho &quot;&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;;\r\n}\r\nelse {\r\necho &quot;&lt;p&gt;&quot;;\r\necho $content;\r\necho &quot;&lt;\/p&gt;&quot;;\r\n}\r\n}\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n
usage :
\nadd this code <\/p>\n
 the_content_limit('100');\u00a0 <\/pre>\n
inside WordPress loop. This function usually replace<\/p>\n
\u00a0the_content(); <\/pre>\n
credits: this function from Limit Posts plugin \u00a0(the original plugin author site seems down at the moment). I have updated code above \u00a0to remove Image Caption for showing<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
This function controls the maximum\u00a0amount of characters displayed for an entry on the main page. If the set limit is surpassed, the text on the entry will be chopped\u00a0to that amount of characters, otherwise the content will be showed unchanged. Add following code to functions.php in your theme folder function the_content_limit($max_char, $more_link_text = ‘(more…)’, $stripteaser […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[54,5],"tags":[55,6],"class_list":["post-268","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-code-snippet","category-wordpress","tag-code-snippet-2","tag-wordpress-2"],"aioseo_notices":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p1pvi1-4k","jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":279,"url":"https:\/\/pixert.com\/blog\/keep-html-tags-wordpress-limit-posts\/","url_meta":{"origin":268,"position":0},"title":"Keep HTML Tags in WordPress Limit Posts – the_content_limit","author":"Pixel Insert \/ Pixert","date":"January 8, 2013","format":false,"excerpt":"This function, the_content_limit \u00a0controls the maximum\u00a0amount of characters displayed for an entry on the main page on WordPress homepage posts, e.g Featured Posts, Recent Posts However , the_content_limit stripped HTML tags just like the_excerpt. 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