Article Word Count Reviews, Downloads & Maintenance

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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Installation

Upload the plugin files to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.
Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ screen in WordPress.
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.
You can sort the posts and pages by their word count by clicking on the ‘Word Count’ column header.

Frequently Asked Questions

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;
});

Review feed

pk2000

2/28/2023

Does one thing right

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

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Changelog

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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