Do you run a blog with multiple authors? Then, you probably have wondered how you can set a minimum word count for your posts in WordPress. In this article, we will share with you a snippet that lets you set a minimum Word count for your WordPress posts. If a user tries to publish a post that is too small, then it will return an error telling them the post is not long enough.
Simply open your theme’s functions.php file and paste the following code:
function minWord($content)
{
global $post;
$content = $post->post_content;
if (str_word_count($content) < 100 ) //set this to the minimum number of words
wp_die( __('Error: your post is below the minimum word count. It needs to be longer than 100 words.') );
}
add_action('publish_post', 'minWord');
You may change the minimum number of words from 100 to whatever you like. You can also customize the error to make it helpful.
Hello
No need to globalize $post since it’s passed in 2nd argument.
You “$content” parameter is wrong, the 1st param is not the content but a post ID.
So i modified the code to change this, i used ‘dummy’ to understand we do not need it in you function.
function minWord( $postID_dummy, $post ) {
$content = $post->post_content;
if (str_word_count($content) < 100 ) //set this to the minimum number of words
wp_die( __(‘Error: your post is below the minimum word count. It needs to be longer than 100 words.’) );
}
add_action( ‘publish_post’, ‘minWord’, 10, 2 );
Core : http://core.trac.wordpress.org/browser/trunk/wp-includes/post.php#L2980
See you !
Julio – WordPress Expert.
do you think this can work this gravity form plugin ?
Wohaa! I’ve been looking for this for a long time! Tnx!
I assume you could edit this script and set it up for a maximum word count as well. Is this correct?
Yes you can do that as well.
Yea, don’t you just turn the bracket around ( more)
Ah, cool little trick! I can see it coming in handy on those mega-magazine blogs everyone wants to build.
Is there a way to do that with comments, too? A minimum comment size might improve the quality of them.