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:
1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 | 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.