[Resolved] Trim a custom field value and display it

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[Franck]

Hello,
I want to show only few character on my custom field, i have find this solution . :https://toolset.com/forums/topic/limit-word-count-in-view-of-a-custom-field/

But it doesn't work anymoire i think, because the new plugin i think.

When i try my site is broken.

Do you have a solution ?

Thanks a lot

[Christian Cox]

What kind of content is stored in this field? If it's HTML content, then this approach will not work. It will only work for plain text content. There is not a simple way to fix this for HTML content, because HTML adds extra words and tags and special characters, and maintaining that content and its tag strucure in a truncated format is not easy.

If you need to truncate HTML content, the best way to do that is to use CSS to specify a height and width for a container, and then hide the overflow content. It will truncate based on visual height instead of number of characters or words. Here are some tutorials and code samples showing how you can accomplish this:
https://css-tricks.com/line-clampin/
https://codepen.io/martinwolf/pen/qlFdp

[Franck]

Hello,
No it is a text field like in my picture.
I really don"t understand.

I have add this code in my fonction.
add_shortcode('trim', 'trim_shortcode');
function trim_shortcode($atts, $content = '') {
$content = do_shortcode($content);
$length = (int)$atts['length'];
if (strlen($content) > $length) {
$content = substr($content, 0, $length) . '…';
}
return $content;
}

And this short code
[trim length="20"]
[types field="presentation-du-programme"][/types]
[/trim]

[Christian Cox]

I can't see any picture, but I will be glad to take a closer look. Please provide login credentials here so I can take a look in wp-admin. Please include a URL where I can see the problem.

[Franck]

The view is here : hidden link

and url here : hidden link

[Christian Cox]

I did not receive login credentials, can you provide them in the private reply fields?

[Christian Cox]

It looks like the spacing of the trim shortcode is causing some problems. I have modified the shortcode so that it is all on one line, like this:

[trim length="20"][types field="presentation-du-programme"][/types][/trim]

Please check now and let me know if it is still not working as expected.