Best limiter plugins for WordPress
The most popular limiter plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Advanced Custom Fields leads with 800+ active installs, ahead of Comment Limiter (30+). All 2 plugins tagged “limiter” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 limiter plugins
- 1.
Advanced Custom FieldsThe most installed limiter plugin, with 800+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 12 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 2.
Comment Limiter30+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 4 months ago.
All 2 plugins tagged “limiter”
Advanced Custom Fields
Up in the last 7 days:1#7,312by Atomicsmash12 years ago
This plugin provides a textarea that limits the number of characters a user can add. The limit is cleanly represented by a jQuery UI progress bar.
- Installs
- 800+
- Rating
- 5.0(3)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Comment Limiter
#24,112by Anass Rahou4 months ago
Limit comment length by setting minimum and maximum character rules for WordPress comments.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 3/day