{"id":1922,"date":"2014-12-23T06:51:45","date_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:51:45","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.vishmax.com\/en\/?p=1922"},"modified":"2014-12-23T06:51:45","modified_gmt":"2014-12-23T06:51:45","slug":"how-to-display-the-word-count-of-wordpress-post","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.vishmax.com\/en\/labs\/how-to-display-the-word-count-of-wordpress-post\/","title":{"rendered":"How to display the word count of WordPress post"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>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.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"php\">\r\n\r\n<?php\r\n\r\nfunction wordcount(){\r\n    ob_start();\r\n    the_content();\r\n    $postcontent = ob_get_clean();\r\n    return sizeof(explode(\" \", $postcontent));\r\n}\r\n\r\n\r\n?>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n<p>Call the above function by pasting the following code in your template within the loop.<\/p>\n<pre lang=\"php\">\r\n\r\n\t<?php echo wordcount(); ?>\r\n\r\n<\/pre>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>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. 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