Title: Word Count Last modified: August 19, 2016 --- # Word Count * Resolved [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/) * (@thisisedie) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-2/) * I asked this question about a year ago and never got an answer so I’m trying again. How would I get the total number of words for the entire blog without a plugin? Thanks. Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-2/#post-1517837) * If you are talking about doing this from a theme, I actually played with this a little bit. I downloaded the [Post Word Count](http://wordpress.org/extend/plugins/post-word-count/) plugin, which by default is designed to show the total word count for all posts. I took the contents of the plugin file itself and pasted it as a function in my themes functions.php file. I then added `` to my index.php file and it did indeed show my total ( what I assume to be my actual total ) word count. I imaging you could place it in any template in your theme and then style it as you like. The instructions for per post or all posts word count are in the readme file in the plugin. Talk about quick and dirty. I feel a little like I stole it! 🙂 * Thread Starter [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/) * (@thisisedie) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-2/#post-1517850) * Ha, lol. I’m actually using that plugin currently. Is there any benefit to doing it the way you described as opposed to using it as a regular plugin? Aside from minimizing clutter. * [Clayton James](https://wordpress.org/support/users/claytonjames/) * (@claytonjames) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-2/#post-1517855) * > How would I get the total number of words for the entire blog **without a plugin**? * That’s the only reason I can think of, and the only reason I even mentioned it. My own opinion? Just use the plugin! * 🙂 * Thread Starter [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/) * (@thisisedie) * [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-2/#post-1517857) * Actually I like your way better. I was just curious if using functions.php might have benefits. Thanks a bunch :o) Viewing 4 replies - 1 through 4 (of 4 total) The topic ‘Word Count’ is closed to new replies. * In: [Fixing WordPress](https://wordpress.org/support/forum/how-to-and-troubleshooting/) * 4 replies * 2 participants * Last reply from: [thisisedie](https://wordpress.org/support/users/thisisedie/) * Last activity: [15 years, 11 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-2/#post-1517857) * Status: resolved ## Topics ### Topics with no replies ### Non-support topics ### Resolved topics ### Unresolved topics ### All topics