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Character Countdown

Description

Help editors by showing a character countdown reference on Pages, Posts or Excerpts.

This can be useful for constructing nice looking excerpts with the break point in a sensible place.

Easy on/off for Pages, Posts and Excerpts, so you can enable it just where you want it.

Note: This plugin does not actually limit the number of characters that appear on the front end, it just displays the count in the backend as a reference as you edit your content.

Screenshots

  • The Character Countdown settings screen in WP Admin
  • An example of Character Countdown in action

Installation

  1. Upload the character-countdown folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the WordPress ‘Plugins’ dashboard.
  3. Configure the plugin by going to the Character Countdown tab that appears in your admin menu.

Or search for “Character Countdown” via your Plugins Dash and follow the prompts to install and activate.

FAQ

None yet.

Installation Instructions
  1. Upload the character-countdown folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory
  2. Activate the plugin through the WordPress ‘Plugins’ dashboard.
  3. Configure the plugin by going to the Character Countdown tab that appears in your admin menu.

Or search for “Character Countdown” via your Plugins Dash and follow the prompts to install and activate.

Reviews

December 7, 2018
I've just installed WordPress 5.0 and the Classic Editor plugin, and Character Countdown continues to work like a champ. (It does not, of course, appear in a Gutenberg text block.)
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Contributors & Developers

“Character Countdown” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

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Changelog

1.0

  • Initial release