Title: Feature Request: Character Count & Styling
Last modified: August 22, 2016

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# Feature Request: Character Count & Styling

 *  Resolved [DebbyK](https://wordpress.org/support/users/debbyk/)
 * (@debbyk)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-character-count-styling/)
 * Just installed and it works great. Does just what I want it to do. In your spare
   time (right?!?) a couple of features would be useful. I don’t have any idea if
   they are practical or reasonable – just wish list items.
 * (1) Character Counting. It would be amazing if in the pop-up box, there was a
   character countdown so that I could see if my quote is too long, given the URL
   and “via @ttinvent” that is added.
 * (2) Styling options. I like the default, but what if I wanted it to be another
   color or font? Conversely, if it is just pulling on the styles that already exist
   in the theme, a style guide so that I know what classes to tweak.
 * Overall well done. No complaints so far. Thank you!
 * Debby Kurti
    [http://www.ttinvent.com](http://www.ttinvent.com)
 * [https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-click-to-tweet/](https://wordpress.org/plugins/better-click-to-tweet/)

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 *  Plugin Author [Ben Meredith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benmeredithgmailcom/)
 * (@benmeredithgmailcom)
 * [11 years, 5 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-character-count-styling/#post-5570580)
 * Hey Debby,
 * Thanks for the kind words. Glad my plugin is helping!
 * For point 1, I’ll have to look into adding a character counter, but (pardon a
   brief lapse into developer speak here) since the math being done to take into
   account the twitter handle takes place in the PHP (server side), and the popup
   is handled functionally before that by a separate javascript file (browser side),
   it will likely prove tricky. But I like a challenge. 🙂
 * For request #2, I will likely never include style options “out of the box” with
   the plugin. For a brief aside into why I am so adamant there, read the “Decisions,
   not Options” section of the [WordPress philosophy](https://wordpress.org/about/philosophy/).
 * BUT, you can add any style options to your existing CSS files to trick out my“
   base settings” all you’d like. The simplest way is to modify the existing CSS
   for the plugin at /plugins/better-click-to-tweet/assets/css/styles.css
 * Keep in mind that those files are overwritten on a plugin upgrade, so keep a 
   copy of whatever changes you make to save your changes again after an upgrade.
 * To force compatibility across multiple themes, I found that I had to include 
   several `!important` declarations throughout that file. For that reason, it is
   not as simple to override the CSS from another location (such as your theme or
   child theme’s style.css file), _but it is possible there, too._
 * If you initiate a change in your theme’s style.css that doesn’t seem to be working,
   the first step is to remove the corresponding `!important` declaration in my 
   plugin’s css file.
 * Here, if it’s helpful, is a list of div and link classes that you can play with
   to change the appearance of your bctt boxes, given the above-referenced limitations:
    - .bctt-click-to-tweet
    - .bctt-click-to-tweet:after
    - .bctt-ctt-text a
    - .bctt-ctt-text a:hover
    - a.bctt-ctt-btn
    - .bctt-ctt-btn:hover
 * Once you’ve tweaked it, I’d love to see how it looks! Be sure to send along a
   link!
 * Thanks again,
    Ben
 *  Plugin Author [Ben Meredith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benmeredithgmailcom/)
 * (@benmeredithgmailcom)
 * [11 years ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-character-count-styling/#post-5570801)
 * Hey Debby,
 * Just a note that as of this version (4.1), you can completely override the default
   styling by adding a file named bcttstyle.css to the /uploads folder.
 * Name it exactly bcttstyle.css, and it will preempt the default stylesheet loaded
   by the plugin.
 * Your best bet might be to copy and paste the default styles as a starting point(
   you can see those [here](http://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/better-click-to-tweet/tags/4.1/assets/css/styles.css))
   and then style away! I hope to write up a tutorial on that in the next few days.
 * Enjoy!
    Ben
 *  [Seph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seph/)
 * (@seph)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-character-count-styling/#post-5570816)
 * Hey there,
 * thanks for your support! What would be the best way to make the font size smaller
   but keeping the full width box?
 *  [Seph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seph/)
 * (@seph)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-character-count-styling/#post-5570817)
 * What I noticed is that you have text in two rows, the first word seems to be 
   engaged. Is there any solution to that? Check the image: [http://i.imgur.com/HOef7rM.png?1](http://i.imgur.com/HOef7rM.png?1)
 *  Plugin Author [Ben Meredith](https://wordpress.org/support/users/benmeredithgmailcom/)
 * (@benmeredithgmailcom)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-character-count-styling/#post-5570818)
 * Hey Seph,
 * As a matter of forum etiquette, can you start your own thread in the forums? 
   I don’t want to blast all of these nice folks with unrelated issues.
 * But I did figure out what is causing that first line indent, it’s a css declaration
   of padding of 6px. I will schedule that fix for the next version of my plugin.
 * Thanks!
 * Ben
 *  [Seph](https://wordpress.org/support/users/seph/)
 * (@seph)
 * [10 years, 10 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/feature-request-character-count-styling/#post-5570819)
 * Oh thanks. I thought it would be nicer to not open threads and instead add questions
   to similar ones. Anyway, since we are talking about it already…anyway I can fix
   it via css in the meantime till your update arrives?
 * Thank you very much for that plugin.

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