How to display the word count of WordPress post
If you would like to display the word count of a post content, then here is an easy method. Simply add below function to your functions.php file in theme folder and call the function within the loop to display number of words of the current post.
<?php function wordcount(){ ob_start(); the_content(); $postcontent = ob_get_clean(); return sizeof(explode(" ", $postcontent)); } ?> |
Call the above function by pasting the following code in your template within the loop.
<?php echo wordcount(); ?> |
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