Title: Excerpt character limiter
Author: matteotrap
Published: <strong>2010-07-14</strong>
Last modified: 2010-08-23

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# Excerpt character limiter

 By [matteotrap](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matteotrap/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/excerpt-character-limiter.zip)

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 *  [Installation](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/excerpt-character-limiter/#installation)
 * [Development](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/excerpt-character-limiter/#developers)

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## Description

WordPress Excerpts should be short, you know.

But when a user writes a lot, you might want to limit the number of characters for
the excerpt panel: that’s where the Excerpt Character Limiter plugin comes handy!

It will basically add a character countdown to the panel titlebar, and it will truncate
the text when available characters drop to zero.
 Simple but effective!

## Installation

 1. Upload `excerpt-character-limiter-1.1` folder to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress

## Reviews

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## Contributors & Developers

“Excerpt character limiter” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ matteotrap ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matteotrap/)

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### Interested in development?

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## Changelog

#### 1.1

 * Excerpt Character Limiter now uses WordPress built-in jQuery
 * Now you can limit the title field, too.

#### 1.0

 * first stable version

## Meta

 *  Version **1.1**
 *  Last updated **16 ел ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 2.8 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **3.0.5**
 *  Language
 * [English (US)](https://wordpress.org/plugins/excerpt-character-limiter/)
 * Tag
 * [excerpt](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/tags/excerpt/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://tt.wordpress.org/plugins/excerpt-character-limiter/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ matteotrap ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/matteotrap/)

## Support

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