Limit the number of words in the answers

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Limit the number of words in the answers

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ralmar 2 Posted August 31, 2015

Hi Rahul, amazing plugin 😉

I have a question about the limit of characters in the answers… Is it possible to limit the number of words in the answers?

I would like the answers have maximum 140 words, any idea?

Thanks for your time! Rgds!

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score 1 · Answer 1 · 2015-09-01T00:33:06+00:00

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El Tío Rufi 311 Posted August 31, 2015 5 Comments

I don’t know if there’s a function to do it. But you can do it including the maxlength attribute, o with jQuery.

But if you change the attribute, you are changing the php, so it will be override with the next update.

http://stackoverflow.com/questions/1363030/can-i-specify-maxlength-in-css
http://jsfiddle.net/TmsXG/13/

ralmar commented August 31, 2015

Thanks for your quick answer! 😉

But I need limit “words”… “maxlength” only works with characters… 🙁

Rgds!

El Tío Rufi commented August 31, 2015

Yeah, my bad. I’m pretty sure it can be done with javascript, but that is not my area, sorry…

ralmar commented August 31, 2015

Thanks! 😉

I have found this function:

function minWord($content){ global $post; $num = 100; //set this to the minimum number of words $content = $post->post_content; if (str_word_count($content) < $num) wp_die( __('Error: your post is below the minimum word count.') ); } add_action('publish_post', 'minWord');

Is it possible to change it to make it work the opposite?

Thanks!!!

El Tío Rufi commented August 31, 2015

function minWord($content) {
global $post;
$num = 140; //set this to the maximun number of words
$content = $post->post_content;
if (str_word_count($content) > $num) wp_die( __(‘your error message here.’) );
}

add_action(‘publish_post’, ‘minWord’);

This way show error with more of 140 words, but I don’t know where or how implement this function.

ralmar commented September 2, 2015

Thanks!

I will try! 😉

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