Problem with Related Posts

Hi Jeremy,
I repaired it yesterday. The problem was that, in Jetpack Related Posts module, while showing more than 3 related articles, if the post title is long then it will end up being displayed like this: http://worldanimeclub.com/wp-content/uploads/2014/06/jetpack.png

I corrected it by using the code below, such that if a post title length is more than 27 characters then the remaining characters of the title will be stripped down. This will preserve the layout of the related posts for 6 or more items.

protected function _get_title( $post_title, $post_content ) {
		if ( ! empty( $post_title ) ){
                    $post_title = substr($post_title, 0, 27);
                    $post_title = $post_title.'.....';
			return $post_title;
                        }

Hi, you should find the code

/**
	 * Returns either the title or a small excerpt to use as title for post.
	 *
	 * @param string $post_title
	 * @param string $post_content
	 * @uses strip_shortcodes, wp_trim_words, __
	 * @return string
	 */

in wp-content/plugins/jetpack/modules/related-posts/jetpack-related-posts.php
then you should replace all the code under it with

protected function _get_title( $post_title, $post_content ) {
		if ( ! empty( $post_title ) ){
                    $post_title = substr($post_title, 0, 27);
                    $post_title = $post_title.'.....';
			return $post_title;
                        }

		return __( 'Untitled Post', 'jetpack' );
	}

leave the remaininf code, starting from

/**
	 * Returns a plain text post excerpt for title attribute of links.............

untouched

@j33, well I use Jetpack for most my needs because I can stay close to original WordPress as much as possible and Jetpack related posts will reduce server load since it is handled by WordPress.com servers.

Ya, Shareaholic is also good. But do not bother much about Related Posts, their main purpose is to reduce bounce rates, so just make sure you display at least 6 related articles under a post.