It’s not a plugin (though maybe someone could package it up so it is), but here’s what you need:
http://wordpress.org/support/topic/43544?replies=5
I’ve been using it since then (March 2006) and it works fine.
Thanks, but I’m having a little problem. I’m pasting this after the div:
<?php
$countpost = $post->post_content;
$countpost = preg_replace('/s+/', ' ', strip_tags($countpost)); // remove white space and html
$words = ((count(explode(" ",$countpost)) + count(explode(".r",$countpost)))-1); // count spaces and periods
if ($words == 1)
{
echo "<p class="note">Post length: ~ $words word
";
}
else
{
echo "<p class="note">Post length: ~ $words words
";
}
?>
…but I get an error that says “Parse error: syntax error, unexpected T_STRING, expecting ‘,’ or ‘;’ in /home/allen/public_html/behindthedreams/wp-admin/edit-form-advanced.php on line 163”
Any ideas? Thanks
I’ll try again, but with a pastebin this time:
http://pastebin.ca/121545
A few bits of code got lost in translation to the forum here, a common problem. Give that a shot. It should work perfectly as it’s the exact code in my admin page. Let me know.
I came across this word count plugin that’s easier than inserting the code, and also gives other information. Although, it counts hyperlinks as well so it’s kind of in accurate. Maybe someone can mode it.
http://flagrantdisregard.com/wordstats/
Ok, I got how to make the word count a bit more accurate. My code is far more accurate than theirs when counting words in hyertext. Just as it should be, <h4>Title of Movie</h4> is 3 words with mine, but 9 with Word Stats. It’s easy to modify their code, though, and it even looks like they knew they’d have to do this sooner or later because they already began the process to make it happen.
Open wordstats.php and look for the comment “// What about dashes (vs. hyphens).” The line right after that is commented out. Take the comments off (delete the “//”) and make that line read:
return(count(preg_split('/s+/', trim($this->text))));
If someone can modify that code to not count things between brackets, that’ll do it. As it stands, <a href=... counts as 2 words because my code counts the spaces. If it can somehow split by spaces (/s+/) AND ignore things brackets (((>)|(<))), that would be perfect. I don’t know regular expressions enough to know how to do both of those things. Still, this is getting better.
What you need to do is to substitute out anything between < and > first, and then do the split and word count:
return(count(preg_split(‘/( |\n)/’, preg_replace(‘/<+?>/’, ”, trim($this->text) ))));
BUT, having checked what $this->text actually produces, I don’t see any bracketed code anyway. So I’m not sure this is necessary.
