A quick way to shorten wordpress titles.

Wordpress Short Titles

function ShortenText($text) {
        // Change to the number of characters you want to display
        $chars_limit = 100;
        $chars_text = strlen($text);
        $text = $text." ";
        $text = substr($text,0,$chars_limit);
        $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));

// If the text has more characters that your limit,
//add ... so the user knows the text is actually longer

if ($chars_text > $chars_limit) {
        $text = $text."...";
}
return $text;
}


Shorten Wordpress Titles
function ShortenText($text) {
        // Change to the number of characters you want to display
        $chars_limit = 100;
        $chars_text = strlen($text);
        $text = $text." ";
        $text = substr($text,0,$chars_limit);
        $text = substr($text,0,strrpos($text,' '));

// If the text has more characters that your limit,
//add ... so the user knows the text is actually longer

if ($chars_text > $chars_limit) {
        $text = $text."...";
}
return $text;
}
RAW

To use this code, copy and paste into your function.php in wordpress and find <?php the_title(); ?> and replace with <?php echo ShortenText(get_the_title()); ?>.