WP Word Count

WP Word Count is a plugin for WordPress that gives you word count statistics for your blog’s posts and pages. In addition to overall stats, WP Word Count also gives figures and details for the largest posts and pages of your blog as well as breakdowns for each of your blog’s authors.

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Latest Release: 1.5
Download: http://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/wp-word-count.1.5.zip

WP Word Count

To Do List

  • “Scheduled” Post Statistics
  • Monthly Statistics – By Author

A forked version of WP Word Count is now available that supports Asian languages: Asian Word Count

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rougy August 18, 2010 at 5:11 PM

Hi,

I just installed this but can’t seem to find where I can view it.

rougy August 18, 2010 at 5:14 PM

Never mind. Found it.

It’s up in the dashboard folder, top left of the admin page.

Laneth Sffarlenn August 27, 2010 at 9:12 PM

Hey there,

I simply LOVE this plugin! Thanks so much for putting it together!

One thing I’d love to see is the ability to change the “Draft Posts” to “Scheduled” or “Future” posts.

I’m writing a blog at the moment that I need to pre-write a LOT of posts and schedule them for auto-posting. It’d be nice to be able to separate the stats of Posted vs. Future posts.

Is that something that could be done?

Thanks for this awesome plugin, once again!

vincent August 27, 2010 at 10:43 PM

Hi,
I like your plugin.

I would like to suggest that the plugin counts the entire # of words of the page as it is was displayed in a browsers w/o css activated. That would be very helpful for SEO reasons.
thanks.

Tarique Sani August 28, 2010 at 1:53 AM

How about a widget that can be placed in the sidebars….

Brian August 30, 2010 at 11:16 AM

@Laneth I’m looking into things like this for a future release. It might not come real soon but I’ve added it to the To Do list.

@vincent Other than adding the word counts for comments I’m not sure what the extra value from this is.

@Tarique Maybe in the future. I’m not sure people other than the blog author care about word counts.

Laneth Sffarlenn September 6, 2010 at 5:08 PM

@Brian – thanks for responding – I look forward to it :)

aaron September 10, 2010 at 7:33 AM

I quite like the idea of being able to publish the whole page as displayed to you in the dashboard.

I would happly have it tucked away with a link for user to click on to see the “Blog Stats” some usuers like me are intrested in this kind of thing :)

but apart from tat an awsome plugin, I am aproaching the size of my unversity disatation in jst a few week! that took me moths back 10 years ago!! :)

Keith September 14, 2010 at 12:50 PM

I too would like to be able to put this in a sidebar, or on a separate page. My school is having us write a lot in blogs, and I would like to put this somewhere so my professors could see the stats. I tried poking around at hacking it, but no luck.

Thanks for this awesome plugin!

Tim November 1, 2010 at 4:53 PM

Is there is shortcode that I could use to show the number of words on the given page/post?

Brian November 30, 2010 at 3:30 PM

@Tim I’ve posted a new version (1.3) today that now includes a Shortcode.

Mark December 3, 2010 at 9:41 AM

Firstly. This is amazing. Secondly, is there a way to see the stats on a monthly basis. ie. this user posted x times with an average of 500 words this month, giving a total of 500x words for the month? Also is it possible to code in, this post has x words automatically so you dont need to add it to each post?

Thanks a lot, I love the stats plugins you do.

Brian December 3, 2010 at 11:34 AM

@Mark Author stats by month is on my to do list but I’m not sure when I’ll get to it.

Penfx December 4, 2010 at 7:47 AM

Hi,
I love this plugin and thanks so much!
I’ve just tried this plugin and felt great. But I’m a Chinese and it cannot count Chinese words, so.. how to fix this problem? I really need this kind of plugins!

Brian December 5, 2010 at 12:16 PM

@Penfx I’m not even sure I’d know where to begin working on that problem. For now, you might be out of luck getting WP Word Count to work for you.

Susan December 10, 2010 at 4:58 PM

Isn’t this already incorporated into WordPress?

Brian December 11, 2010 at 2:13 PM

@Susan The post editor in the admin will show you word counts but there’s no dedicated place for it anywhere. In fact, WordPress itself doesn’t even store this information; what you see when you write a post is generated by the editor itself.

Michael Nordmeyer March 21, 2011 at 11:51 AM

I discovered a “bug” in displaying WP Word Count on the plugins page.

Every plugin gets a CSS ID applied, which is derived from its name. WP Word Count gets wp-word-count. Unfortunately there also exist an internal WordPress CSS ID called wp-word-count for styling the word count on the editor page. (see: http://twitpic.com/4bty6b)

Changing the plugin name of WP Word Count to WPWordCount fixes the problem, because a different CSS ID is applied (wpwordcount).

Brian April 21, 2011 at 10:18 AM

@Michael It’s taken me a month but I’m finally pushing a fix for this today.

Joe July 23, 2011 at 7:14 PM

Hi, the plugin looks great.

I’m having a little bit of trouble figuring one thing out though.

I only want to show the word count on posts, not pages. I’ve pretty much got it figured outy, with pages not being added to the numbers everywhere, except in the list of the largest posts/pages.

I’ve removed every mention of the word page and what looks like it could be controlling that section, but I just weant to remove any pages from appearing in the list.

What do I need to remove/edit to do that?

Thanks,

Joe

hyphenatedchef September 30, 2011 at 6:41 AM

Wow. You just changed my life. Thank you so much! So easy!

Sean Gartlan October 4, 2011 at 8:05 PM

I do not see any word count information for private posts? Is it possible to view word count information on private posts?

Thanks,
Sean.

Timofey November 7, 2011 at 7:09 AM

Hi! I’m from Russia!
I’ve just tried Your plugin, but it counts words only before the “more” tag. Also I see list of largest posts, where largets post have 57 words – so many words just in excrept… But the post have about 1200 words…

Dan January 4, 2012 at 8:51 PM

Hey! I’m using your plugin on my site, and I love it. However, I had a performance question. I only rarely refer to the plugin (maybe once a month, to see how much new content I’ve written.) Is having the plugin activated constantly taking up processing power? Or does it not hurt to have it activated? At the moment, I’m leaving it deactivated and only activating it when I want to check the word count, but I’m not sure if that’s the best way to go about it.

Brian January 5, 2012 at 12:42 AM

@Dan The plugin calculates your word counts when the plugin is activated and whenever a post/page is updated. If you notice any slow down when the plugin is active and you are saving something then you might want to consider deactivating it and reactivating it as you are but I’m not sure that’s entirely necessary.

Michael Borgelt March 21, 2012 at 6:52 PM

Hey, I am wondering if you can see a list of all your pages..not just the top 10 most words per page.

Brian March 22, 2012 at 10:18 AM

@Michael There are no current plans to add that to the plugin but maybe when I get some free time I’ll look into it.

Thomas December 2, 2012 at 12:55 PM

Hi, just love your plug-in.

Is it possible to add a “count posts”?? That would be awesome.

Thx

count word December 2, 2012 at 5:53 PM

are you going to add word density feature ?

word counter January 6, 2013 at 8:27 PM

is there a way to add statistics for comments also

Thanks

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