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Article Word Count

by pk2000

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Description

This plugin adds a custom column to the list of posts and pages in the WordPress admin area, and displays the word count for each post and page in the column. It also makes the column sortable, so you can easily sort the posts and pages by their word count.

New Feature

• If a “word_count” postmeta exists, sorting by “Word Count” uses it for precise numeric ordering.
• Otherwise, sorting uses an approximate calculation based on spaces.

Adds the word count of each post to the post list in the admin area and makes the column sortable.

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  1. Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
  3. The plugin will automatically add a custom ‘Word Count’ column to the list of posts and pages in the WordPress admin area, and populate the column with the word count for each post and page.
  4. You can sort the posts and pages by their word count by clicking on the ‘Word Count’ column header.
Can I customize the column header text?

Yes, you can customize the column header text by using the __() function and passing your custom text as the argument. For example, if you want to change the column header text to ‘Article Length’, you can use the following code in your theme’s functions.php file or in a custom plugin:

add_filter(‘manage_posts_columns’, function($columns) {
$columns[‘word_count’] = __(‘Article Length’);
return $columns;
});

works with divi for page word counts

By Jamie (scragglydoggames) on April 6, 2023

very happy with this, I was looking for an easy way to get a word count for all the pages (not posts) on my site, and various code snippets didn't work with divi.

I installed this, activated and boom, there's the word count so I can do it.

Does exactly what it says on the tin, good job!

Works well

By Oliver @ WebMatros.com (olivernielsen) on March 30, 2023

Hi Priit

Thank you for this fine lil' plugin!

I had to the following lines of code (at the end) to make the word count column sortable in the reusable blocks view:

add_filter('manage_edit-wp_block_sortable_columns', function($columns) {
    $columns['word_count'] = 'word_count';
    return $columns;
});

Consider adding it to the plugin:)

Thanks again!
Oliver

Does one thing right

By pk2000 on February 28, 2023

Super light-weight plugin to add the word count to post and page list.

1.4.0

  • Added fallback sorting method if “word_count” postmeta is missing (approximate count via spaces).

1.3.2

Initial release.

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