Limit Comments and Word Count

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1. ★★★★★ thomsenf

   3.1y ago

   Ohne viel Schnickschnack, einfach zu bedienen, klappt super! Hatte einen kleinen bug gefunden, wurde kurzfristig behoben! top support 👍🏻

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2. ★★★★★ onlygrace

   3.2y ago

   This plugin has prevented very lengthy comments from our readers. We find that other readers dislike (as much as we do) a comment which goes on and on for many paragraphs, when a few sentences will do.

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3. ★★★★★ andreymiller

   3.8y ago

   So Lucky I bumped here: I solved a critical situation in few clicks

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4. ★★★★★ akmc117

   5.9y ago

   … the plugin had a nag notice up pestering me for one, so I have to call it as I see it. The first thing is that I agree with the review by dannydanny; this doesn’t seem to give you the ability to limit posts by people who aren’t members. But that aside, the description of the Plugin was: “This plugin adds above the comment box an active letter counter, word counter, and comment counter, that provides a user constant visual access to their input activity”. I did not see ANY of those. (5.5.1–en_AU, Twenty Seventeen theme.) But what I DID see when the plugin was enabled was that the [Post Comment] control had completely vanished from the page. I’m guessing that it can still be seen by bots since the endless Russian spam postings have continued unabated, it was only humans who did not have access to the button. As soon as I disabled the plugin, the button came back. As soon as I reenabled the plugin, and refreshed the page, it vanished again. (I had windows open in Firefox, Chrome and Edge to check that this wasn’t a browser issue.) With the plug-in active, I couldn’t even see the button when I was logged on as an Admin. I have to again agree with dannydanny; if I give someone an account then it implies that I trust them to not abuse the privilege. THEY aren’t the people that I need to put limits on, and as far as I can see the plugin doesn’t give you the option of limiting non-members. That being the case, I would not have a need for this plugin, and will be uninstalling it once I post this. I didn’t rate it as 1 star out of malice, but the tool tip over 2 stars says “Works”… and if the [Post Comment] button isn’t even visible to an admin it’s really hard to say “it works”. Yes, it stops comments… but in my experience it stops ALL comments that aren’t done by spam bots, since the commenter has no way of posting the comment.

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5. ★★★★★ dannydanny

   6.3y ago

   This plugin is great, but seems to lack the ability to limit comments for folks who are not registered users. For example, if someone comes along that is not a user of my site and wants to add a comment, I can’t limit those. And those are the most important to limit. Maybe I’m misunderstanding the plugin. Also, once you create a limit or a rule, the rules do not show so how can you possibly remember what you’ve done? It just says, “settings saved.” But it does not show that you have created a rule. So there is no way to see what rules you’ve imposed upon each user type. This topic was modified 6 years, 1 month ago by dannydanny.

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6. ★★★★★ classytech23

   6.5y ago

   This plugin is great at limiting comments on my blog; easy to setup!

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7. ★★★★★ lmtuan

   6.5y ago

   This Plugin help me a lot for my website

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8. ★★★★★ JJNW

   6.7y ago

   Plugin is simple, yet extremely effective on providing controls to limit comments: you can limit by time period, by role, number of comments per time period, and more. And support is there to help if you have any questions or concerns. Thanks for the plugin!

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Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-06-28 50+ → 40+ down after 196 days in tier
2. 2025-12-14 40+ → 50+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2025-12-13 50+ → 40+ down after 92 days in tier
4. 2025-09-12 40+ → 50+ up after 44 days in tier
5. 2025-07-30 30+ → 40+ up after 2 days in tier
6. 2025-07-28 40+ → 30+ down after 1 days in tier
7. 2025-07-27 30+ → 40+ up after 86 days in tier
8. 2025-05-02 40+ → 30+ down after 33 days in tier

Competes with

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Limit Comments and Word Count: 40+ active installs, 4.4★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-09-01. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/limit-comments-and-word-count