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

1.2.7(5mo ago)2476↓100%4[1 issues](https://github.com/wpmetabox/meta-box-text-limiter/issues)1GPL-2.0PHP

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Meta Box Text Limiter Plugin
============================

[](#meta-box-text-limiter-plugin)

Text Limiter is an extension for [Meta Box](https://metabox.io) plugin which allows you to limit number of characters or words entered for [text](https://docs.metabox.io/fields/text/), [textarea](https://docs.metabox.io/fields/textarea/) and [WYSIWYG](https://docs.metabox.io/fields/wysiwyg/) fields.

> **Meta Box Lite**
> We recommend using [Meta Box Lite](https://metabox.io/lite/), 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.

Usage
-----

[](#usage)

To start using text limiter, just add the following parameters to `text`, `textarea`, or `wysiwyg` fields:

```
'limit'      => 20, // Number of characters or words
'limit_type' => 'character', // Limit by 'character' or 'word'. Optional. Default is 'character'
```

Plugin Links
------------

[](#plugin-links)

- [Project Page](https://metabox.io/plugins/meta-box-text-limiter/)
- [Documentation](https://metabox.io/docs/)
- [Report Bugs/Issues](https://github.com/rilwis/text-limiter/issues)
- [Premium Extensions](https://metabox.io)

###  Health Score

45

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FairBetter than 92% of packages

Maintenance62

Regular maintenance activity

Popularity20

Limited adoption so far

Community20

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity69

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 69.6% 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

Every ~242 days

Recently: every ~98 days

Total

12

Last Release

156d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/668274?v=4)[Anh Tran](/maintainers/rilwis)[@rilwis](https://github.com/rilwis)

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Tags

wordpressuiwordpress pluginselect2custom fieldwp-adminmeta-box

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