The Character Count extension provides a simple character and word count in the Publish form.
It was designed to provide a (soft-)limit on the number of characters in a field. It didn’t impose the limit it just showed the author how many characters and words they had used, and how many they had left. However, if you set the limit to zero, it provided a normal character and word-count.
The extension allows you set up which fields have a character count/limit. (By default, the count does not show).
It can be configured to ignore HTML tags.
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Available for EE 1.6
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