Displays the word count of a post in the post meta row. The count includes the title, excerpt, and all block content - the same corpus that the Reading Time plugin uses for its estimate.
Features:
- Word count shown inline in the post meta row
- Counts words from the title, excerpt, and all block content
- Renders after reading time (priority 5) at priority 6
- No admin configuration, no database queries at render time
- Contensio 2.0 or later
composer require contensio/plugin-word-countCopy the plugin directory and register the service provider via the admin plugin manager.
No migrations or configuration required.
The plugin hooks into contensio/frontend/post-meta at priority 6. It uses TextExtractor::fromContent() to walk the post's block tree and concatenate all string values into a single plain-text corpus. PHP's str_word_count() then counts the words in that string.
Contensio\Plugins\WordCount\Support\TextExtractor is a self-contained helper class that recursively flattens the block JSON structure into plain text:
title + excerpt + flatten(blocks[*].data[*].translations[*])
All HTML tags are stripped before counting via strip_tags().
The word count appears in the post meta row as:
· 1,234 words
Numbers are formatted with number_format() for readability (thousands separator).
| Hook | Priority | Description |
|---|---|---|
contensio/frontend/post-meta |
6 | Injects the word count into the post meta row |