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Great stuff @errorsys!

I also checked it with a PHP7 Compatibility Plugin and this was the output:

FILE: /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/db-cache-reloaded-fix/db-functions.php
———————————————————————————————
FOUND 0 ERRORS AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 1 LINE
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54 | WARNING | Use of deprecated PHP4 style class constructor is not supported since PHP 7.
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FILE: /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/db-cache-reloaded-fix/db-module.php
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FOUND 9 ERRORS AFFECTING 9 LINES
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214 | ERROR | Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in PHP 5.3 and forbidden in PHP 7.0
411 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
421 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
427 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
430 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
440 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
441 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
445 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
450 | ERROR | Extension ‘mysql_’ is deprecated since PHP 5.5 and removed since PHP 7.0; Use mysqli instead
—————————————————————————————————————-

FILE: /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/db-cache-reloaded-fix/db-cache-reloaded.php
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FOUND 1 ERROR AND 1 WARNING AFFECTING 2 LINES
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73 | WARNING | Use of deprecated PHP4 style class constructor is not supported since PHP 7.
91 | ERROR | Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in PHP 5.3 and forbidden in PHP 7.0
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FILE: /home/mysite/public_html/wp-content/plugins/db-cache-reloaded-fix/db-module-wrapper.php
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FOUND 1 ERROR AFFECTING 1 LINE
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105 | ERROR | Assigning the return value of new by reference is deprecated in PHP 5.3 and forbidden in PHP 7.0
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I wonder that if for people who know PHP a little better than I do, these could all be easy fixes?

Hi Eric,
I was having the same issue myself.

So I poked around in the plugin files, found a solution & thought I’d share.

Beforehand though,
NOTE: This type of Trial+Error also works best if you have a little separate testing-area install of WP on a subdirectory of your server like /newfeaturetests/ or whatever.
-So you don’t screw an important live-site horking around with your core php files, by making some little syntactical or punctuation mistake.
Just fill it with dummy headers, entries, images, etc. and fool around with no/low consequences.

Anyway,

If you go into Plugins>Editor, and look in the files:
add-meta-tags/metadata/amt_twitter_cards.php
add-meta-tags/metadata/amt_opengraph.php,

On Line 510 of the OpenGraph one you should see:
$size='medium'
Change medium to the image size that you would like. In mine, I just put full, because mine aren’t that big.
Also, Put a note in the nearest comment area of the php file that you changed something to remind yourself what, when & where.
Save the changes with “Update File”.

In the file for the Twitter Cards its on Line 137.

I haven’t looked in the Schema one, but a search for the word, ‘medium’ and then a change to your desired size should give similar results. (upd: It might be the one on Line 410)

Do the same thing, super-reload the page & see what happens.

Best of Luck; Cheers.

Wow! Nice detective work, there.

” what’s that doing there? It doesn’t contain anything.” -hah! My thoughts, too.

Thanks very much for the reply!

Ok, for those who want to give this a shot, I figured it out with my non-existant PHP skills.

Ok, so back near 399 of featured-posts-grid.php, after

global $post;
$temp_post = $post;

I just made a function, where I could pass the $val->post_title and a limit as arguments.

So, it goes:

function limit_chars ($string, $limit) {
			if (strlen($string) > $limit) {
				$text = substr($string,0,strpos($string,' ',$limit)); }
			else $text = $string;
			$text = $text . ' ...';
			return ($text);
}

Then in the next block, where it pulls down all the elements of each post it throws, right after the call:

foreach ( $recent_posts as $key=>$val )
    {
        setup_postdata($val);

I pull up my little character+word-break+… limiter with this:
$post_details[$key]['post_title'] = limit_chars($val->post_title, 45);

-And then let the blocks for excerpt, author, etc. run normally.

Took awhile, but I just tested it now and it seems to run great! ::knock on wood::

So, there you are. If anyone else needs it, it appears to work.

Cheers!

I went out and found user Alchemyth’s help in this thread: https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/limit-excerpt-length?replies=11

But I don’t really know enough PHP to make it work properly. I know I’m doing something wrong, but am having trouble figuring it out.

So far, from Line 403 of featured-posts-grid.php, I have:
<code>
$post_details[$key][‘post_title’] = $text;
$text = $val->post_title;
if (strlen($text) > 50) {
$text = substr($text,0,strpos($text,’ ‘,50)); }
else $text = $val->post_title;
$text = $text . ‘ …’;
`

-But this doesn’t work.
It skips the first of my 5 thumbnails across (only 1 row), and then starts putting the titles of entries 1-4 into images 2-5.

Any code help would be appreciated.

(that bit up there is Alchemyth’s trick to limit the length, chop off the last broken word and add an ellipsis, ie: …)

Thanks for any help!

Ok, great!

Thank you very much for the time, effort and info! +I’ll give that one a look.

Cheers,
skmdc

bump!
Any ideas?