Shorten the text output of a Text Field

• hcmendez

• March 11, 2022 at 1:48 am

I would like to shorten the output of a text field by limiting the number of characters and adding a “…” at the end of the result.

I found a code to shorten the Title of the post, which comes in handy but this time I would like to shorten a text custom field called “event_location”.

This was the code I found:

<?php
echo substr(get_the_title(), 0,85).”…”;
?>

Is there a way to achieve the same results for the text field?

• John Huebner

• March 17, 2022 at 2:55 pm

echo substr(get_field('event_location'), 0,85).'…';

• hcmendez

• March 23, 2022 at 4:45 am

Thanks for your answer. What would be the code to get the field if it is inside a group?