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.
As of April 2026, Advanced Custom Fields: Limiter Field is a WordPress acf plugin with 1.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 15K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 3.0.1+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2013. Last updated 11 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 10% this week. Top alternative: Advanced Custom Fields (ACF®).
Works with ACF v4 and v5
This plugin provides an Advanced Custom Field textarea that limits the number of characters a user can add. The limit is cleanly represented by a jQuery Ui progress bar. You can define the number of characters on a per field basis.
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I needed a text area with a visual limiter for creating a lot of content pages with small text sections that needed to match up to the size of pictures on their left. This worked beautifully – the progress indicator saves writing time. Recommended!
It works 100% and i hope they’ll put this into core soon. One of the best plugin to avoid client-layout-destruction!
One of the most important field for avoid client “layout destruction”, i hope they’ll put this into core soon
Thanks for the great plugin. It works great and integrates seamlessly in place of certain text fields/areas.
| WordPress | 3.0.1+ requiredTested up to 3.5.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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