Title: Hercules Post Stats
Author: Todd Nestor
Published: <strong>January 18, 2015</strong>
Last modified: January 18, 2015

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It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

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# Hercules Post Stats

 By [Todd Nestor](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toddnestor/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/hercules-post-stats.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hercules-post-stats/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hercules-post-stats/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hercules-post-stats/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hercules-post-stats/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hercules-post-stats/)

## Description

Hercules Post Stats adds a meta box to your post edit screen that shows you real
time details about how many words you have written in the post, how many you wrote
this session, how much time total you have spent on the post, how long you have 
spent this session, and approximately how long it would take the average reader 
to read the post.

## Screenshots

[⌊This is what the metabox looks like in the post edit view.⌉⌊This is what the metabox
looks like in the post edit view.⌉[

This is what the metabox looks like in the post edit view.

## Installation

Add this plugin by uploading the zip using the “Add Plugin” feature built into WordPress.
Otherwise manaully unzip the folder and upload the entire directory to your blog’s
plugins folder ( /wp-content/plugins/ ). Next you have to activate the plugin.

Alternatively you can install it using the WordPress plugin search from the plugins
page in your WordPress admin area.

## FAQ

#### What do these stats do for me?

These stats are useful for blog writers when they are writing to know how productive
they are being. It shows how many words you have written in this writing session,
and how much time you have spent while also showing the total words and total writing
time. In addition it shows you how long it would take the average reader to read
the post.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Hercules Post Stats” is open source software. The following people have contributed
to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Todd Nestor ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toddnestor/)

[Translate “Hercules Post Stats” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/hercules-post-stats)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/hercules-post-stats/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/hercules-post-stats/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hercules-post-stats/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/hercules-post-stats/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **11 years ago**
 *  Active installations **Fewer than 10**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
 * Tags
 * [hercules](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/hercules/)[metabox](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/metabox/)
   [posts](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/posts/)[wp-admin](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/wp-admin/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/hercules-post-stats/advanced/)

## Ratings

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## Contributors

 *   [ Todd Nestor ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/toddnestor/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/hercules-post-stats/)