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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.

1.2.8(1mo ago)25264[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/wpmetabox/meta-box-text-limiter/issues)
- [Premium Extensions](https://metabox.io)

###  Health Score

51

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FairBetter than 95% of packages

Maintenance81

Actively maintained with recent releases

Popularity22

Limited adoption so far

Community21

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity70

Established project with proven stability

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 70.7% 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 ~235 days

Recently: every ~135 days

Total

13

Last Release

42d ago

### Community

Maintainers

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

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