Reply To: Shortening the output of a text field for display

• aronsamma

• April 1, 2015 at 2:33 am

I kind of solved it:

<small>            
              <?php
							$key_1_value = get_post_meta( get_the_ID(), 'description', true );
							$key_1_value = strip_tags($key_1_value);
							echo substr($key_1_value, 0, 130); // pull only x amount of characters from the content
							?>… </small>

If I use “get_post_meta”, it works just fine. The issue seems to be with using the_field() for some reason.