Title: Plugin idea: minimum/maximum wordcount before publishing
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Plugin idea: minimum/maximum wordcount before publishing

 *  [Frank](https://wordpress.org/support/users/freakenstein/)
 * (@freakenstein)
 * [16 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-minimummaximum-wordcount-before-publishing/)
 * I’ve been looking for such a plugin, but was unable to find it.
 * **What’s the idea?**
    By default WordPress allows posts to be published without
   any content or title. With a plugin like this you could set a bare minimum of
   words which is required to publish the post. _(for example 45 words, to get it
   even with the default excerpt lenght)_ If it has not passed the minimum, the 
   auther gets a warning. Also, it’s can be handy to set a maximum number of words.
 * **Why?**
    When using WP more as a CMS with multiple authors, it can be handy 
   to force a bare minimum of words. So authors have to write an introduction, instead
   of only posting images/gallery. The maximum number of words, no clue why it’s
   handy, but it probably makes an addon like this more complete.
 * What do you think about this idea?

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 *  [Jim S.](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stitzelj/)
 * (@stitzelj)
 * [15 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/plugin-idea-minimummaximum-wordcount-before-publishing/#post-1211172)
 * I’d like to see this idea brought to fruition, as well, but for WordPress 3.0.
   It would be really useful for a multi-author fiction site where the admins could
   impose an upper limit to story length.

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