URL Title Character Limit
How Do I?
I am using ExpressionEngine version 2.9.2 and cannot access the full details of our update history, so please bear with me through this query.
Recently I found a series of shortened social media links to blog posts created using ExpressionEngine had broken. Upon investigation, I discovered blogs with titles between 75 and 100 (the max) characters had broken. It appears that previously there was no URL Title character limit and suddenly there existed a character limit of 75. Furthermore, it appeared that all URL titles exceeding 75 characters had been retroactively altered to fit the current limit.
While I do not have complete information of our ExpressionEngine update history, I have been tasked with discovering everything I can related to the issue. Do any ExpressionEngine experts out there know if there was an update that imposed the 75 character URL title limit? Could this limit have been imposed by someone with admin access, as opposed to editor access? Could a glitch have allowed >75 character limits to be entered?
I’m not sure if someone here can help on this issue with these few details, but I’d appreciate any insight. Many thanks.
Hey mgreenbiz! The url_title has had a 75 character limit in the database, and title 100 characters, until version 3 when both were increased to 200. These are schema-level constraints, so the database server would truncate any characters submitted, even if that was performed out-of-band of ExpressionEngine. Those constraints extend back to ExpressionEngine 1, fwiw.
Is is possible that someone created the shortened link before the content was actually submitted to ExpressionEngine?