Title: Word Count Function Used in WordPress
Last modified: August 20, 2016

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# Word Count Function Used in WordPress

 *  Resolved [blogsdna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogsdna/)
 * (@blogsdna)
 * [13 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-function-used-in-wordpress/)
 * Can any one point me to right direction or help me in finding the function WordPress
   uses to display word count of post in wysiwyg editor ? Thanks in advance.
 * P.S I don’t need those custom function for counting words of post content, I 
   need the code/function used by WordPress.

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 *  [geebs](https://wordpress.org/support/users/geebs/)
 * (@geebs)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-function-used-in-wordpress/#post-3051167)
 * ../wp-admin/js/word-count.js
 *  Thread Starter [blogsdna](https://wordpress.org/support/users/blogsdna/)
 * (@blogsdna)
 * [13 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/word-count-function-used-in-wordpress/#post-3051169)
 * Thanks a lot Geebs, I wasn’t expecting reply to this after two weeks, but you
   just gave me what I was looking for 🙂

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