[wp-hackers] limit characters

El Carpo Blues elcarpo.blues at gmail.com
Mon Apr 6 23:08:30 GMT 2009


jesse, thanks...
problem is, don't know how to write a plugin :S

anyway, i'll give it a try, and see what happens...

On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Silverstein, Jesse <
Jesse.Silverstein at xerox.com> wrote:

> This would probably be best achieved by a plugin. This is how I would
> write said plugin:
>
> On some action (admin-head or admin-head-(page-hook) ?) enqueue the
> maxlength js, and your own plugin's js (needs to be after jquery, so add
> as a requirement). Then add a filter somewhere during the
> edit-form-advanced (maybe "the_editor") to put in a hidden "maxlength"
> field for the maxlength js. Your plugin's js should 1) add a span with
> appropriate ID inside the td with id="wp-word-count" after the
> word-count.js has added its own span. See wp-admin/js/word-count.js for
> reference there. Then 2) trigger the maxlength plugin (safest after page
> load has finished).
>
> Also, I think you will want to make sure this only happens if
> user_can_richedit().
>
> Good luck!
>
> -Jesse Silverstein
>
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>
> hi there!
> i just entered the list 'cause i need your help
>
> Is there a way to limit the amount of characters in a wordpress post? I
> mean, limit the amount of characters WHEN WRITING A POST, something like
> integrating the maxlength
> plugin<http://remysharp.com/2008/06/30/maxlength-plugin/>into
> wordpress edit-form-advanced.php... I know those kind of scripts work
> with textarea, but i can't find the textarea tag on wordpress...
>
> if there is no way to achieve this, it also could be useful a way to
> count
> the characters i'm actually writing...
>
> thank you!
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