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<p>Editor Writing Goals is a lightweight editor-only plugin for writers, bloggers, editors, and content teams who want simple writing feedback while drafting posts and pages.</p>
<p>The plugin adds one focused panel to the block editor sidebar. It does not add frontend output, shortcodes, tracking, AI features, or external service calls.</p>
<p>Use it to track word count, character count, estimated reading time, title and excerpt length, and simple readability signals without leaving the editor.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Live word count.</li>
<li>Live character count.</li>
<li>Estimated reading time.</li>
<li>Paragraph count.</li>
<li>Heading count.</li>
<li>Per-post word and character goals.</li>
<li>Global default goals.</li>
<li>Title length check.</li>
<li>Excerpt length check.</li>
<li>Basic readability insights.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Length Checks</h4>
<p>The title length check marks 50 to 60 characters as good.</p>
<p>The excerpt length check marks 120 to 160 characters as good.</p>
<p>These checks are simple writing aids. They do not replace a full SEO plugin and do not change your content.</p>
<h4>Readability</h4>
<p>The readability section shows average sentence length and counts paragraphs with 120 or more words.</p>
<h4>Privacy</h4>
<p>Editor Writing Goals does not collect analytics, does not track users, does not call external APIs, and does not send writing data outside your WordPress site.</p>
<p>Per-post goals are saved as protected post meta. Global defaults are saved in WordPress options.</p>


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