Title: Post Word Count
Last modified: August 19, 2016

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# Post Word Count

 *  [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/)
 * (@thisisedie)
 * [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-word-count-1/)
 * I use this:
 * `<?php $count_posts = wp_count_posts(); echo $count_posts->publish; ?>`
 * to count the number of posts but I’d like to show the total number of words in
   the blog WITHOUT using a plugin. Anyone know of a way to do this?

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 * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/)
 * 0 replies
 * 1 participant
 * Last reply from: [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/)
 * Last activity: [17 years, 3 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/post-word-count-1/)
 * Status: not resolved

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