[wp-hackers] limit characters

El Carpo Blues elcarpo.blues at gmail.com
Wed Apr 8 19:25:28 GMT 2009


none had already solved this, right?


On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:26 PM, El Carpo Blues <elcarpo.blues at gmail.com>wrote:

> thank you!
>
>
> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 8:20 PM, Silverstein, Jesse <
> Jesse.Silverstein at xerox.com> wrote:
>
>> Sounds like this will be a great learning experience for you :)
>>
>> An alternative to hooking the "the_editor" filter would be to just slap
>> in a hidden input field from your plugin's js file. That means all you
>> need to do in PHP is enqueue your two js scripts for the right page, and
>> the rest is javascript. Although this is only an better alternative if
>> you are more comfortable with javascript than php. Otherwise it's six of
>> one, half a dozen of the other.
>>
>> P.S. refer to wp-admin/js/word-count.dev.js not word-count.js. The
>> former is (more) legible.
>>
>> -Jesse
>>
>> -----Original Message-----
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>> [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of El Carpo
>> Blues
>> Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 7:09 PM
>> To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> Subject: Re: [wp-hackers] limit characters
>>
>> jesse, thanks...
>> problem is, don't know how to write a plugin :S
>>
>> anyway, i'll give it a try, and see what happens...
>>
>> On Mon, Apr 6, 2009 at 7:55 PM, Silverstein, Jesse <
>> Jesse.Silverstein at xerox.com> wrote:
>>
>> > This would probably be best achieved by a plugin. This is how I would
>> > write said plugin:
>> >
>> > On some action (admin-head or admin-head-(page-hook) ?) enqueue the
>> > maxlength js, and your own plugin's js (needs to be after jquery, so
>> add
>> > as a requirement). Then add a filter somewhere during the
>> > edit-form-advanced (maybe "the_editor") to put in a hidden "maxlength"
>> > field for the maxlength js. Your plugin's js should 1) add a span with
>> > appropriate ID inside the td with id="wp-word-count" after the
>> > word-count.js has added its own span. See wp-admin/js/word-count.js
>> for
>> > reference there. Then 2) trigger the maxlength plugin (safest after
>> page
>> > load has finished).
>> >
>> > Also, I think you will want to make sure this only happens if
>> > user_can_richedit().
>> >
>> > Good luck!
>> >
>> > -Jesse Silverstein
>> >
>> > -----Original Message-----
>> > From: wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com
>> > [mailto:wp-hackers-bounces at lists.automattic.com] On Behalf Of El Carpo
>> > Blues
>> > Sent: Monday, April 06, 2009 6:05 PM
>> > To: wp-hackers at lists.automattic.com
>> > Subject: [wp-hackers] limit characters
>> >
>> > hi there!
>> > i just entered the list 'cause i need your help
>> >
>> > Is there a way to limit the amount of characters in a wordpress post?
>> I
>> > mean, limit the amount of characters WHEN WRITING A POST, something
>> like
>> > integrating the maxlength
>> > plugin<http://remysharp.com/2008/06/30/maxlength-plugin/>into
>> > wordpress edit-form-advanced.php... I know those kind of scripts work
>> > with textarea, but i can't find the textarea tag on wordpress...
>> >
>> > if there is no way to achieve this, it also could be useful a way to
>> > count
>> > the characters i'm actually writing...
>> >
>> > thank you!
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