How to limit the number of characters in an event description

[Mark]

Is there a way that we can limit the number of characters that a person can type into the description field and let them know what the limit is? We would like to limit it to about 420 characters if possible.

[Casey]

Mark,
Thanks for reaching out. Unfortunately there’s not a simple way to do this that I know of. I’m going to pass this request on to our developers to see if they have any suggestions. Please stand by.

[Casey]

Mark,
Our developers have chimed in on this and given me some code that will help out with this. Add the following code to your theme’s functions.php file: https://gist.github.com/ckpicker/4956646

Also, download this file and upload it to the following location: ‘YOUR_THEME_DIRECTORY/js/description-count.js’: http://d.pr/f/ijWn

Finally, if you want to add a character count, you can read how to do that here: http://konstruktors.com/blog/wordpress/3685-limit-number-words-characters-in-wordpress-editor/

I hope that helps! Please let me know if you have further questions. Thanks!

[Casey]

Mark,
Actually, use this code for your JavaScript instead: http://d.pr/f/QnGd

This contains the character count functionality as well. Let me know if that does the trick. Thanks!

[Casey]

Mark,
Just wanted to check back in and see if the code above got you sorted out. Just let me know! Thanks!

[Casey]

Mark,
Since we haven’t heard back from you, I’m going to go ahead and close this thread out. Feel free to start another thread if you have further questions. Thanks!

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