can you limit #_LINKEDNAME length

[Anonymous]

is there any way you can specify a character limit for #_LINKEDNAME

i want to keep my event titles on my main listing page to one line per event and a character limit would do the trick but I can’t think of any way to implement it. is it possible?

i’ve tried getting everyone who enters events to just put in short titles but it’s not happening and I haven’t got the time to keep going over several months of listings to check for mistakes!

[Franky]

You can change the permalink per event, make that one short.

[Anonymous]

thanks Franky. not sure I follow or I may not have explained it clearly. I have a listings page here: http://nambuccalondon.com/events-2

what I’m trying to do is force the display of the lineup field (which is #_LINKEDNAME) to be no longer than one line.

so to give an example on the current page Mar 1 and Mar 2 are OK as #_LINKEDNAME is shorter than one line. Mar 3 however is too long and drops to a second line, i was hoping there was a way I could force #_LINKEDNAME to be no more than a certain number of characters.

[Franky]

Ok, I was wrong there. The #_LINKEDNAME uses the title of the event, so if that’s long, so will be #_LINKEDNAME.

If you want to change that, I advice you to create a custom attribute per event ( http://www.e-dynamics.be/wordpress/?cat=29 ) and use that for short name, and together with #_EVENTPAGEURL you can then create custom links.

Or … just use a smaller title for the event 🙂

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