Posted 8 months ago #
I'm using the default twenty eleven template.
I want to somehow display the amount of characters within a post. I would like to somehow automactically generate and append something like (this post contains 400 characters), it would also be great if I could also turn off this function as well.
Any ideas on how I would go about this? Or perhaps a point in the right direction (i'm not very technical but will give anything a try)
Thanks
Do not edit the Twenty Eleven theme. It is the default WordPress 3.2 theme and having access to an unedited version of the theme is vital when dealing with a range of site issues.
Create a child theme for your customisations. Once your child theme is active, we should be able to help with the customisation.
Posted 8 months ago #
Sorry forgot to mention that my child theme is active, and I'm running the site from a local server. Sorry esmi
Is this for the front or back end of the site? Only running a character count on the front end of the site could have a significant performance impact on the site.
Posted 8 months ago #
I would like for it to be displayed on the front-end. However, if it would increase performance, I would be statisfied with a character count in the back end which I could copy and paste into the post I guess? Would be nice if it were a button that you could press or tick (add character count to post).
Have you had a look through these plugins: http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/search.php?q=character+count
Posted 8 months ago #
Yeah, I had a try at those...
Just had another try and this one works better than I originally realised
http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/posts-character-count-admin/
I thought that the character count only appeared in the 'view all posts' page, but it appears under the text box once the message has been saved.
I suppose this will actually do, thanks for pointing me in the right direct esmi, I hope I didn't waste too much of you time x
No problem. It's an interesting idea. I was about to see if I could come up with a basic coded solution to get you started when I thought I'd check through the Plugin Repo in case someone else had the same idea. :-)
Posted 8 months ago #
Hey Esmi, admin plugin works well in the backend, but thought I'd try a better solution so that it workd in the frontend too. As i want to display the character count in the frontend, so the plugin available isn't the best. A friend made this plugin for me. It displays the characters used for each post.
<?php
//ADD FILTERS
add_filter('the_content', 'char_count_func');
function char_count_func($text)
{
$count = strlen($text);
if(is_page())
return $text;
else
return $text.'<br/><b>'.$count.' characters including spaces.</b>';
}
?>The problem with it is that punction symbols and line breaks are counted as more than one character. Is there a way to adjust this to count all symbols and line breaks as 1 character. Also how would you restrict this from certain post?
note: I found this code in another plugin which I think addreses the symbol count issue, but not the line break.
function get_characters() {
if ($this->text == '') { return(0); }
if ($this->characters != -1) { return($this->characters); }
$count = strlen(utf8_decode($this->text));
$this->characters = $count;
return($count);
}Thanks
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