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experience/overflow
===================

A plain text field with a soft or hard character limit

2.0.0(7y ago)131.0k3MITPHP

Since Aug 31Pushed 7y ago1 watchersCompare

[ Source](https://github.com/manifestuk/overflow.craft-plugin)[ Packagist](https://packagist.org/packages/experience/overflow)[ RSS](/packages/experience-overflow/feed)WikiDiscussions master Synced 4d ago

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Overflow
========

[](#overflow)

Overflow is a plain text Craft field type, with a soft or hard character limit. It's perfect for things such as metadata titles and descriptions, which have an "ideal" length, but not an absolute limit.

Overflow will gently inform your content authors when they exceed a soft character limit, but will still allow the entry to be saved.

Opting for a hard limit causes Overflow to behave exactly like [the built-in plain text field](https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/plain-text-fields.html).

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

Overflow requires Craft 3.0.0+.

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

You can install Overflow via [the Craft Plugin Store](https://craftcms.com/features/plugin-store).

If you're [a `1337` hacker](https://twitter.com/iamdevloper), you can also install it via Composer, as follows:

```
$ cd /path/to/project
$ composer require experience/overflow

```

Field configuration
-------------------

[](#field-configuration)

Overflow adds a new "Enforce character limit" checkbox to [the plain text field](https://docs.craftcms.com/v3/plain-text-fields.html) settings.

Check the box to enforce the character limit (the standard plain text field behaviour). Leave the box unchecked for a soft character limit.

###  Health Score

32

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LowBetter than 72% of packages

Maintenance20

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity23

Limited adoption so far

Community9

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity62

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Unknown

Total

1

Last Release

2815d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/439058?v=4)[Andrei Nesterov](/maintainers/manifest)[@manifest](https://github.com/manifest)

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Top Contributors

[![monooso](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/4369838?v=4)](https://github.com/monooso "monooso (2 commits)")

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