By Justin Inabinette on Wednesday, 04 December 2013
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Hi-

New to EasyBlog. But, not to Joomla. I integrating this to a website on 3.x What I need is a good microblogging system. EasyBlog was hands down the best blogging system I have found. The only issue is I need to limit the characters allowd in a blog submission or edit to how many someone may post. In otherwords, the reverse to the "minimum character" to post.

I was looking at using this javascript:
http://www.mediacollege.com/internet/javascript/form/limit-characters.html

To not only limit how many characters can be used, but also show how many characters are left.
My question is, which file do I need to edit? And if possible the best point to insert the edit.

I wouldn't be against using the HTML edit version:
http://www.w3schools.com/tags/att_input_maxlength.asp

My thought was to make a duplicate of the edited page and place it in my html folder of the template being used. so when upgrades are given I won't lose that edit.

Any thoughts, advice or help with this would be most appreciated!

Best regards,
-Justin
Hello Justin,

Perhaps if you are wanting to setup a microblog, use the "quick update" option rather than the "write new post" page because the micro updates are simplified and it's much easier for you to customize. See my screen shot here, http://screencast.com/t/su7lLvcr .

To customize the micro update page, the files are located at:

/components/com_easyblog/themes/dashboard/system/dashboard.microblog.php
/components/com_easyblog/themes/dashboard/system/dashboard.microblog.text.php

If you would like to stick to the write new post page, you need to edit the file in /components/com_easyblog/themes/dashboard/system/dashboard.write.php
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