Try ACF calculated fields – or use the calc shortcode.
Great suggestions – thanks!
Maybe I’m missing something, but:
* I’m wanting to display something based on post size/word count
* ACF looks like it returns the content of custom fields, not post size/word count
* [calc] might work, but it needs the post size/word count as a variable
* [wp-word-count] looks like it operates within the context of a post – would that work inside a [loop]?
… still looking
Write your own shortcode where you pass an post_id and get back the word count for the relevant post. Then you can call this shortcode within a loop.
If you would like to build the loop with the word-count you need to write that value somewhere or to pass a list with matching ids to the loop.
For that I use own shortcodes. I give the shortcode the id of one location and a distance to search in and it delivers back a list of ids for a loop.
Or for translations with polylang – I pass the id of one language and the desired language and get back the id of the translated post to use in loops.
A great bit of advice. I could write my own , but it would be my first attempt using PHP and I’m a little time-pressed right now. So a bit of googling, and I found
https://wordpress.org/plugins/reading-time-wp/.
The plug-in provides a shortcode to control the positioning of the reading time, has settings to adjust reading speed and the shortcode works “out of the box” inside a [loop] – perfect!
