Best character limit plugins for WordPress
The most popular character limit plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Excerpt Tools leads with 300+ active installs, ahead of WYSIWYG Character Limit for ACF (100+). All 2 plugins tagged “character limit” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 character limit plugins
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Excerpt ToolsThe most installed character limit plugin, with 300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.5.0.
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WYSIWYG Character Limit for ACF100+ active installs. No reviews yet, updated 2 months ago.
All 2 plugins tagged “character limit”
Excerpt Tools
Up in the last 7 days:7#10,746by Marcus Downing6 years ago
Change the default text and description of the excerpt box, add an excerpt box to pages and show a jQuery character counter and limiter.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
WYSIWYG Character Limit for ACF
Up in the last 7 days:50#15,162by Code and core2 months ago
ACF WYSIWYG Character Limit adds max-character controls to ACF editors, improving content quality, and editorial standards across WordPress.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 11/day