help w/ modifying a wordpress plugin...

So for the past week i've been tirelessly screwing around w/ eBay Feeds for Wordpress and keep coming up with ERRORS. I know little about PHP, so hoping the modifications are fairly straight forward. Anyways, the plugin is just a simple RSS feed, that plugs in my affiliate id so it simplifies the task. I've just been CSS'in what I can, but looking for a more permanent solution.

1) So the plugin pulls in the eBay title, image, and description. But the latter 2, I don't need. Simple as just deleting some of the code? Seems unnecessary to pull in items I don't need...

2)....and I only need the first 9 characters of the title, anyway to put a filter on that? Opposed to using the images, I was looking to just CSS the "title" into something fancy

So here's the PHP i'm thinking you need... and if not, here's the full code just in case.

<?php
/*
Plugin Name:  Ebay Feeds for WordPress
Plugin URI:   http://winwar.co.uk/plugins/ebay-feeds-wordpress/
Description:  Parser of ebay RSS feeds to display on Wordpress posts, widgets and pages.
Version:      1.2
Author:       Winwar Media
Author URI:   http://winwar.co.uk/

*/

define("EBFW_PLUGIN_NAME","eBay Feeds For WordPress");
define("EBFW_PLUGIN_TAGLINE","Parser of ebay RSS feeds to display on Wordpress posts, widgets and pages.");
define("EBFW_PLUGIN_URL","http://bloggingdojo.com/wordpress-plugins/ebay-feeds-for-wordpress/");
define("EBFW_EXTEND_URL","http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/ebay-feeds-for-wordpress/");
define("EBFW_AUTHOR_TWITTER","rhyswynne");
define("EBFW_DONATE_LINK","https://www.paypal.com/cgi-bin/webscr?cmd=_s-xclick&hosted_button_id=F852ZPEANV7C6");

register_activation_hook(__FILE__,'ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_install');

function ebay_feeds_for_wordpress($url = "", $num = "") {
$link = get_option("ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-link");
$blank = get_option("ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-link-open-blank");
$nofollow = get_option("ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-nofollow-links");
if ($url == "")
{
$url = get_option('ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-default');
}

if ($num == "")
{
$num = get_option('ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-default-number');
}


include_once(ABSPATH . WPINC . '/rss.php');

$rss = fetch_feed($url);
$rss->enable_order_by_date(false);

if (!is_wp_error($rss))
{
 
    $rss_items = $rss->get_items(0, $num);
}
echo "<div class='ebayfeed'>";

if ($rss_items)
{
foreach ($rss_items as $item ) {
 
    echo "<h4 class='ebayfeedtitle'><a ";
 
    if ($blank == "1")
    {
        echo "target='_blank' ";
    }
 
    if ($nofollow == "1")
    {
        echo " rel='nofollow' ";
    }
     echo "href='".$item->get_permalink()."'  class='ebayfeedlink'>".$item->get_title()."</a></h4>";
    if ($blank == "1")
 
{
    echo $item->get_description();
    } else {
        $newdescription = str_replace('target="_blank"', '', $item->get_description());
        echo $newdescription;
    }

 
    }
}
echo "</div>";
if ($link == 1)
{
    echo "<a href='http://bloggingdojo.com/wordpress-plugins/ebay-feeds-for-wordpress/'>eBay Feeds for WordPress</a> by <a href='http://www.bloggingdojo.com'>The Blogging Dojo</a><br/><br/>";
}
}

if ( is_admin() ){ // admin actions

  add_action('admin_menu', 'ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_menus');
  add_action( 'admin_init', 'ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_options_process' );
  add_action( 'admin_init', 'ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_add_admin_stylesheet' );

}

function ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_add_admin_stylesheet() {
        wp_register_style( 'ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-style', plugins_url('ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-admin.css', __FILE__) );
        wp_enqueue_style( 'ebay-feeds-for-wordpress-style' );
}

function ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_menus() {

  add_options_page('eBay Feeds Options', 'ebay Feeds For Wordpress', 8, 'ebayfeedforwordpressoptions', 'ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_options');

}

function ebay_feeds_for_wordpress_options() {
?>

Code (markup):

Hope it's as easy as I think? lol. Thanks. Oh, and heres an EXAMPLE of what it outputs.

 

What you could do is just remove the if/else with $item->get_description(); it seems, and if you add a substr($item->get_title(), 0, 9) to the $item->get_title() it should truncate to 9 characters

 

You're going to need to hold my hand through this lol. It just keeps spitting errors whatever I delete.... never mind, was looking at the wrong section. Thank you very much.