Best word limit plugins for WordPress
The most popular word limit plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Change Excerpt Length leads with 400+ active installs, ahead of Excerpt Length (100+). All 2 plugins tagged “word limit” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 2 word limit plugins
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Change Excerpt LengthThe most installed word limit plugin, with 400+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.7.11.
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Excerpt Length100+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 17 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.8.
All 2 plugins tagged “word limit”
Change Excerpt Length
Up in the last 7 days:6#9,851by Ashkar1 year ago
Allows users to change the excerpt length from the WordPress Reading Settings page.
- Installs
- 400+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Excerpt Length
Up in the last 7 days:58#14,066by vertino17 years ago
Adds an Excerpt Length field setting to the Reading Settings section, this is used to set the number of words that appear in the the_excerpt().
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day