How to set rules for the lenght of the contributors posts

Hi,

I want the posts of the contributors of my blog to have a minimum size. How can I let WordPress check this automatically? I mean, I don´t want the posts to be submitted for review if they don´t exceed the minimum length.

Thank you.

Javi

 

Paste the below code into functions.php

// Content Limit

    function content($num, $more_link_text = 'Find out More...') {  

    $theContent = get_the_content($more_link_text);  

    $output = preg_replace('/<img[^>]+./','', $theContent);  

    $limit = $num+1;  

    $content = explode(' ', $output, $limit);  

    array_pop($content);  

    $content = implode(" ",$content);  

    $content = strip_tags($content, '<p><a><address><a><abbr><acronym><b><big><blockquote><br><caption><cite><class><code><col><del><dd><div><dl><dt><em><font><h1><h2><h3><h4><h5><h6><hr><i><img><ins><kbd><li><ol><p><pre><q><s><span><strike><strong><sub><sup><table><tbody><td><tfoot><tr><tt><ul><var>');

      echo close_tags($content);

      echo "<p><a href='";

      the_permalink();

      echo "'>".$more_link_text."</a></p>";

}

Code (markup):

edit the following code to index.php

<?php content(50, __('Find out More...')); ?>

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Hi dsimi,

thanks a lot but I´m not sure that´s what I was looking for. I want the posts of the writers of a blog to be longer than x words. If they are note longer than x then the writer shouldn´t be able to send it to revision.

Greetings

Javi

 

I like these kind of questions, so going to theorize on how it can be done.

In the post edit screen there is a word count below the textarea of the post. I am thinking that count is stored somewhere.

You would have to hook into the Publish action and check for two things, if the poster is a contributor and that the word count is above your limit. If it passes, then it gets sent through to the editor (basically a draft). If if fails, then you send a message to the top of the screen (there is a filter for that).

You can pore thru the Codex to find all of the particulars. Or hire someone to actually do it.