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Wordpress Word-Count Plugin

Filed under: Wordpress Plugins by Mike mid-afternoon on Wed, Mar 30, 2005

Here is my first shot at a Wordpress plugin. It will produce a word count for not only posts but comments, trackbacks and a total word count. This plugin is based solely on Nick Momrik’s Post Word Count Plugin. I took Nick’s plugin and tweaked it slightly to output the different counts.

Installation
1. Download Word-Count
2. Change the extension of the saved file from .txt to .php
5. Upload the changed file into your wp-content/plugins/ directory.
6. Activate the plugin on your WP Admin » Plugin Management page by clicking the corresponding “Activate” link under the Action column.

Usage
Place the following functions into your code wherever you want the totals to display:

post_word_count()
comment_word_count()
trackback_word_count()
total_word_count()

You can see it working here.

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