Limit number of characters or words entered for text and textarea fields in meta boxes.

Artur Nalobin

Character Counter for Gravity Forms

Add intelligent character counting to Gravity Forms with real-time feedback and optional enforcement. Perfect for content creators and professionals.

Tran Ngoc Tuan Anh

Meta Box

Van Quyen

<p>Text Limiter is an extension for <a href="https://metabox.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Meta Box</a> plugin which allows you to limit number of characters or words entered for <a href="https://docs.metabox.io/fields/text/" rel="nofollow ugc">text</a>, <a href="https://docs.metabox.io/fields/textarea/" rel="nofollow ugc">textarea</a> and <a href="https://docs.metabox.io/fields/wysiwyg/" rel="nofollow ugc">WYSIWYG</a> fields.</p>
<blockquote>
<p><strong>Meta Box Lite</strong><br />
  We recommend using <a href="https://metabox.io/lite/" rel="nofollow ugc">Meta Box Lite</a>, a feature-rich free UI version of Meta Box that provides UI and all free features for managing custom fields and dynamic content on WordPress, including post types, taxonomies, custom fields, and relationships.</p>
</blockquote>
<h3>Usage</h3>
<p>To start using text limiter, just add the following parameters to <code>text</code>, <code>textarea</code> or <code>wysiwyg</code> fields:</p>
<pre><code>'limit'      => 20, // Number of characters or words
'limit_type' => 'character', // Limit by 'character' or 'word'. Optional. Default is 'character'
</code></pre>
<h3>Plugin Links</h3>
<ul>
<li><a href="https://metabox.io/plugins/meta-box-text-limiter/" rel="nofollow ugc">Project Page</a></li>
<li><a href="https://docs.metabox.io" rel="nofollow ugc">Documentation</a></li>
<li><a href="https://github.com/wpmetabox/meta-box-text-limiter" rel="nofollow ugc">Github repo</a></li>
<li><a href="https://metabox.io/plugins/" rel="nofollow ugc">View other extensions</a></li>
</ul>
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