Title: Word Limit Posts
Last modified: August 28, 2020

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# Word Limit Posts

 *  [BEdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bedesign/)
 * (@bedesign)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-limit-posts/)
 * Hi folks,
 * This plugin is excellent but does anyone know how to word limit a post please?
 * Thanks,
 * Ben.

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 *  Thread Starter [BEdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bedesign/)
 * (@bedesign)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-limit-posts/#post-13328423)
 * If I want to limit a users post to 500 words how would one do it?
    Thanks!
 *  Plugin Author [Shabti Kaplan](https://wordpress.org/support/users/shabti/)
 * (@shabti)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-limit-posts/#post-13328520)
 * You can try and use a textarea field and turn on the setting “set as post content”
   but that has the limitations of the text area field
 *  Thread Starter [BEdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bedesign/)
 * (@bedesign)
 * [5 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-limit-posts/#post-13328550)
 * Ah that is a good idea but the site is in production at the moment. I have tried
   to use JS but can not seem to target the right class for it! Cheers 🙂
 *  Thread Starter [BEdesign](https://wordpress.org/support/users/bedesign/)
 * (@bedesign)
 * [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-limit-posts/#post-13417969)
 * Hi Shabti,
 * Nah that is no good! Thanks for the help anyway.
 * Ben

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 * Last activity: [5 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-limit-posts/#post-13417969)
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