Sometimes it can be good to have a character counter on the field, especially text and textarea field types. Sometimes it can be good to have a word counter on the textara field type.
Character count
Good for…
- the SEO title field. Google has a limit in length.
- the SEO description fields. Google has a limit in length.
- adding text in tiny spaces like a little box and don’t want it to be messy.
Blueprint field types…
- text
- textarea
Word count
Good for…
- every long text content you create, to see if it is long enough, for users and for Google.
Blueprint field types…
- textarea
WordPress has word count built in on their TinyMCE (like the textarea field).
Optional
I think it should be optional in the blueprint, especially in the text field type.
In most fields we probably don’t need the character counter. In textarea I’m not sure. There are already buttons so it would probably don’t hurt with a word counter and a character counter in there.