[wp-trac] [WordPress Trac] #23159: Add Words Counter In The Excerpt Metabox

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#23159: Add Words Counter In The Excerpt Metabox
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 Reporter:  alex-ye      |       Owner:
     Type:  enhancement  |      Status:  new
 Priority:  normal       |   Milestone:  Awaiting Review
Component:  Editor       |     Version:  3.5
 Severity:  normal       |  Resolution:
 Keywords:  needs-patch  |
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Comment (by kovshenin):

 You're right, `the_excerpt` is only trimmed when it's auto-generated from
 the content, and not when a custom excerpt has been provided. Quite a few
 themes that use the excerpt would rely on them to be 55 words or less, but
 most themes are okay with longer ones. Adding a tip that shows the excerpt
 length is limiting in the post edit ui. It's not a hard limit, but it's
 still a limit :)

 If themes are afraid that users use custom excerpts which are longer than
 the defined excerpt length and if the theme design really relies on that,
 they could just use `wp_trim_words` on whatever is returned from
 `get_the_excerpt()`, whether it's an auto-generated or a custom one.

 That said, I do feel a pain that when I'm writing a post, I can preview
 the post, but there's no way to see how it would look on the front page
 with the thumbnail and excerpt and everything, unless I privately publish
 it or something. But I guess that's a whole different problem :)

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