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<p>WP Word Count tells you exactly how many words you’ve written on your site with statistics by month and author.</p>
<p><strong>New in Version 3.2.0: Reading Time</strong><br />
WP Word Count now comes with built in reading time statistics for each post and page of your site. Find out how many hours of content you’ve written or let readers know how long your articles are. You can include reading time at the top of each of your posts automatically or use a shortcode.</p>
<h3>FEATURES</h3>
<ul>
<li>Quickly see how many posts and pages you’ve created and how many total words they add up to.</li>
<li>View and display estimated reading times for each piece of content on your site.</li>
<li>Support for custom post types so you can monitor word counts from content created by your themes and plugins.</li>
<li>View your writing output for each month broken down by post type.</li>
<li>See all of your site author’s word counts with breakdowns by post type.</li>
</ul>
<h3>WP WORD COUNT PRO</h3>
<p>Upgrade to <a href="https://wpwordcount.com" rel="nofollow ugc">WP Word Count Pro</a> and get additional features to help you understand and analyze the amount of content you are producing for your site:</p>
<ul>
<li>Control which post types and statuses you see in your statistics through custom “Settings” options.</li>
<li>Get detailed breakdowns of your monthly writing output by day, author, post type, category, tag and more.</li>
<li>View individual author details with information beyond just word count totals.</li>
<li>See expanded post details with revision history, site rankings and more.</li>
<li>Motivate yourself with the built-in achievement system to write more and increase your site’s content.</li>
<li>View charts and graphs for better data visualization and understanding.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can learn more about WP Word Count Pro at <a href="https://wpwordcount.com" rel="nofollow ugc">wpwordcount.com</a></p>


WP Word Count

Count the words on your WordPress site instantly.

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<p>Counts the total number of words in all posts or the number of words in a single post.</p>
<h3>Configuration</h3>
<p>The default is to count the total number of words in all posts. If you would like the number of words displayed for a particular post or page, use the following inside “the loop”</p>
<pre><code><?php mdv_post_word_count(true); ?>
</code></pre>


Post Word Count

Counts the total number of words in all posts or the number of words in a single post.

WP Word Count vs Post Word Count