How to set character limit on META Description?

[drastic]

My current theme, an awesome job by Adult-HTML, has the full content in the meta description.

Is there a setting in KVS that limits the meta description to X amount of characters? Or is that something we put in the theme itself?

Any help would be great.

thx

[Tech Support]

The meta description is rendered like this in Website UI -> Page components -> include_header_general.tpl:

<meta name="description" content="{{$page_description|mb_ucfirst|default:$lang.html.default_description}}"/>

You can use Smarty truncate modifier to limit its output to specific length:

<meta name="description" content="{{$page_description|mb_ucfirst|default:$lang.html.default_description|truncate:1000:"...":true}}"/>

[drastic]

so awesome! thanks!