How to Limit Comment Length in WordPress
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Would you like to limit comment length in WordPress?
WordPress comments encourage discussions around your blog post. However, you may find that comments that are very brief or overly long are not very helpful.
In this article, we will show you how to limit comment length in WordPress.
Why Limit Comment Length in WordPress?
An active comment area is a great way to build a community around your WordPress blog. Visitors can give feedback, ask questions, offer their own point of view on the topic.
However, not all comments are helpful.
We’ve been moderating WordPress comments for well over a decade. In our experience, we’ve found that most helpful comments are above 60 characters and below 5000 characters in length.
One-word comments are usually not very helpful. In most cases, they are spam comments where the author just wants a backlink from your site.
On the other hand, long comments above 5000 characters are often rants or complaints. Sometimes they’re not even relevant to the article.
Setting comment length limits in WordPress will often improve the quality of your comments. However, there is no built-in way of doing this in WordPress.
Let’s take a look at how to control comment length in WordPress by setting minimum and maximum limits.
How to Limit Comment Length in WordPress
To limit comment length in WordPress, you’ll have to add some code to one of your theme files. If you’re not familiar with using code snippets, then see our guide on how to copy and paste code in WordPress.
Simply add the following code snippet to your functions.php file, a site-specific plugin, or by using a code snippets plugin.
| 1234567891011 | add_filter( 'preprocess_comment', 'wpb_preprocess_comment'); functionwpb_preprocess_comment($comment) { if( strlen( $comment['comment_content'] ) > 5000 ) { wp_die('Comment is too long. Please keep your comment under 5000 characters.'); }if( strlen( $comment['comment_content'] ) < 60 ) { wp_die('Comment is too short. Please use at least 60 characters.'); } return$comment;} |
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This code snippet works by adding a filter hook to preprocess_comment. This filter is run before WordPress saves any comments to the database or performs any pre-processing on submitted comments.
It checks the comment length and displays an error message if it is too short or too long.
We hope this tutorial helped you learn how to limit comment length in WordPress. You may also want to learn how to increase your blog traffic, or check out our list of the best WordPress Plugins to grow your site.
Would you like to limit comment length in WordPress? WordPress comments encourage discussions around your blog post. However, you may find that comments that are very brief or overly long are not very helpful. In this article, we will show you how to limit comment length in WordPress. Why Limit…
Would you like to limit comment length in WordPress? WordPress comments encourage discussions around your blog post. However, you may find that comments that are very brief or overly long are not very helpful. In this article, we will show you how to limit comment length in WordPress. Why Limit…