Customizing Unite WordPress theme - Excerpt length, Popular Post Widget

Unite Theme
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  1. No need for EBS plugin as this widget is built in theme and you can find it under Appearance - Widgets and it is called “Unite: Popular Posts Widget”

  2. This theme doesn’t have filter applied for excerpts, it just switched between the_content and the-excerpt functions via Theme Options.
    the_excerpt is 55 word long by default and you can change that by tweaking and adding this filter inside functions.php. It will work via Child Theme as well if you use one. This code changes the-excerpt length to 20 words but you can change it to any number.

function unite_excerpt_length( $length ) {
	return 20;
}
add_filter( 'excerpt_length', 'unite_excerpt_length', 999 );
  1. Featured image and thumbnail size is defined via functions.php and you can change it to any value.
	add_image_size( 'unite-featured', 730, 410, true );
	add_image_size( 'tab-small', 60, 60 , true); // Small Thumbnail
  1. This thread will help you with that: