Minimum Post
Characters.
Enforce meaningful post length on a per-forum basis. No filler, no one-word replies — your forums, your standards.
Keep control 👀
A focused extension that solves one problem well — keeping post quality up without getting in the way of your community.
Per-Forum Minimums
Set a different character minimum for each forum, directly from ACP → Forums → Edit Forum. Set it to 0 to disable for that forum entirely.
Group Bypass Permissions
Exempt any combination of user groups via phpBB’s native group permissions. Administrators are always unconditionally bypassed — no config needed.
BBCode-Stripped Counting
Tags are stripped and whitespace collapsed before counting — so users can’t pad posts with hidden markup. [b]Hi[/b] counts as 2, not 9.
Smart counting 🧮
Before comparing against the minimum, the extension strips all BBCode and collapses whitespace. What you see is what actually counts — no way around it.
Note: quoted content from other posts does count toward the total. Only the BBCode markup itself is stripped, not the body text inside quote tags.
Whitespace is also collapsed — extra spaces between words don’t inflate the count.
phpBB’s global minimum always takes precedence
phpBB ships with its own board-wide Minimum characters per post setting under ACP → General → Post Settings. This extension’s per-forum values layer on top of it — if the global minimum is 10 and a forum’s is 5, users still need 10 characters. The higher threshold always wins.
Up in two minutes 🕐
Okay, maybe five. Anyway, it’s a standard phpBB extension install — no shell access, no Composer required… and no VaultBB Core needed.
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Release Notes
A compact view of every update to Minimum Post Characters.
- FixedSeveral issues with displaying linked errors
- AddedInitial Release
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