Eighty-seven
How many words must one person type before they enter a state of deep rooted paranoia as a result of their inability to judge whether their post is too long? Too short? I have no idea, but we can all find out together with WordPress.com’s latest feature: Word Count.
Below the post text box, you can now see how many words you’ve typed. The number updates itself as you go (don’t be too harsh, it’s not always super bright) for that sweet hit of instant gratification.
Sep 5th at 11:30 pm
This is sweet!
Thank you!
Sep 5th at 11:49 pm
a helpful feature. thanks! : )
Sep 5th at 11:52 pm
Nice feature, Thanks
Sep 5th at 11:54 pm
I wish they’d had this way back when I was in high school. My English teacher would say write a 500 or 1,000 word piece on such and such. Glad the days are gone of counting the words with my finger
Sep 5th at 11:54 pm
Hmm…I saw this feature earlier, so its not that new, but awesome none-the-less!
Sep 5th at 11:54 pm
Sep 5th at 11:55 pm
I noticed it, and I like it! Now I don’t have to revert to such as the dreaded MSWord for this. Can we have excellent content count now please?
Sep 6th at 12:05 am
I think it’s great that you moved it from where it was next to the Preview link. They overlapped a bit and it looked all funky.
Sep 6th at 12:10 am
I just noticed and came right over to see if it was something new or if it was something I stupidly missed. It’s new! And I love it, thank you!
Sep 6th at 12:14 am
Very helpful. Thanks.
Sep 6th at 12:30 am
alright! I can use this…I’m always second guessing my posts
Sep 6th at 12:39 am
Excellent! As an editor, this really helps! Kudos!
Sep 6th at 12:57 am
LOL, any prizes for the highest word count?
Sep 6th at 12:59 am
Less is more.
Nice.
Sep 6th at 1:05 am
Will help me to dont type too much…
Sep 6th at 1:05 am
Cool, thanks.
Sep 6th at 1:08 am
Another nifty feature that I may have use for in the future.
Thanks again, WP! ^_^
Sep 6th at 1:13 am
Nice…:)
Sep 6th at 1:13 am
Excellent thank you.
Sep 6th at 1:23 am
Maybe there should be a character count as well? (You just can’t be satisfied, can you? ha ha ha.) But, seriously. When I submit articles to magazines, they use character count instead of word count.
Sep 6th at 1:24 am
cool very helpful! thanks
Sep 6th at 1:40 am
I just noticed this the other day, very cool! Thanks!
Sep 6th at 1:44 am
Go WP!
Sep 6th at 1:57 am
You guys just keep getting better and better!
Thank you, thank you, thank you WordPress!
Sep 6th at 1:58 am
So, what’s a good number to shoot for? I’m partial to keeping it 250-300.
Sep 6th at 2:01 am
Very helpful. Thanks so much!
Sep 6th at 2:15 am
Cool
Sep 6th at 2:15 am
This is great. Thanks to all the good people here at WordPress for working hard every day to keep us bloggers happier than ever.
Sep 6th at 2:18 am
WordPress can count my words dynamically as I type, but it can’t maintain a space in front of a sentence (to indent a paragraph.) It keeps deleting any nonbreaking spaces it finds, even when I put them in manually or use the special character tool. No matter, wordpress deletes them en-masse when I go to edit my post.
I think the priorities are mixed up.
Sep 6th at 2:33 am
Great…
Sep 6th at 2:36 am
keren…(cool..)
Sep 6th at 2:46 am
Sweet
All we need now is a spell check, and wordpress will BE the internets!
Sep 6th at 3:04 am
Thanks. I really appreciate this addition.
Sep 6th at 3:07 am
This is really great for 55-word writers!
Sep 6th at 3:41 am
awesome!!! and thank you so much!
Sep 6th at 3:48 am
Good God. My latest post counts in at 6,453 words.
Kim
Sep 6th at 3:58 am
Noticed that the other day (and thought I had been overlooking it). I like.
Sep 6th at 4:03 am
I noticed it almost right away and thought it was interesting, but not very practical. Tell you what would be useful though… a good/better/fantastic quality meter (you’ll notice I didn’t suggest bad/worse/terrible since WP bloggers are all above-average)
Sep 6th at 4:06 am
so sweeeeeeet
Sep 6th at 4:17 am
thanks for the feature.
finally, i know if my post is too lengthy..
Sep 6th at 4:47 am
Nice work ! But the description is really funny ..
Sep 6th at 5:06 am
w00t, word count, neat, essential and tells you whether you are writing a one lined statement, or a proper full bodied post, thanks.
Sep 6th at 5:16 am
now I’ll know when to stop babbling
Sep 6th at 5:18 am
You ought to have kept the nested screenshot thing going for at least a few more levels
Sep 6th at 5:35 am
every now and then an idea comes along that simply works better.
I wish everybody well ~ Jeques
Sep 6th at 5:46 am
Cool. I noticed this recently. Good stuff.
Sep 6th at 6:07 am
Cool!
Sep 6th at 6:17 am
I appreciate this feature, Thanks
Sep 6th at 6:43 am
Neat!
Sep 6th at 7:02 am
I think going with WordPress was a great idea. You guys are constantly coming up with all sorts of updates/features that keep adding to the WordPress WOW factor. Keep it up fellas!
Sep 6th at 7:24 am
helpful!
tnx
Sep 6th at 7:30 am
I sure need this as my posts are long!
Sep 6th at 7:35 am
yep, nested screenshot in the post were great, maybe you should have played it like Andy has said.
Also, maybe the word counter was more visible at right of editing buttons like I noticed it was placed last week. But for sure you have tested it intensively so you should know what’s better
Sep 6th at 8:06 am
Yay! I actually requested this, and here it is. Word Count is an essential tool if you are writing to an assignment target – or if you get paid by the word.
PS to ieba: using spaces to layout text is one of those things that’s frowned, because it can go wrong if you change formatting e.g. if you select a new WordPress theme. What you’re seeing is WP working as designed, not a fault. Strictly speaking, you’d use CSS for that, not spaces.
Sep 6th at 9:25 am
cool !!!!! now can restrict the number of words ……
Sep 6th at 9:33 am
Not, realy helpfull …:(
Sep 6th at 10:03 am
oo
Sep 6th at 10:44 am
Another wonderful addition to wordpress’ features. Thank you!
Mama Kelly
Sep 6th at 10:49 am
Good show
Sep 6th at 11:00 am
I love using word counts. It matters, especially when you write for a living and the number of words is dependent upon how much money you can make. Thanks!
Sep 6th at 11:07 am
Good job, guys!
Sep 6th at 11:11 am
I like this feature. I’m sure it will come in handy from time to time. Thanks.
Sep 6th at 11:39 am
Nice, thats kinda helpful
Just to remain in limits
Sep 6th at 11:41 am
I now know that the super long post that used to make my browser time out when editing it is 7000+ words…
Sep 6th at 11:52 am
very nice.
very nice.
Sep 6th at 12:07 pm
nice features…
Sep 6th at 12:52 pm
good addition!
Sep 6th at 1:19 pm
For the first time ever, you guys added a feature that is actually useful but kinda misses the point. What’s the point in counting words, when words can be as short as “do” and as long as “pseudopseudohypoparathyroidism”? I’m a journalist and I write for magazines, and they always demand the text to be “C characters long”, not “X words long”.
I think a character count (with and without spaces) would be far more useful, since a word count serves only the purpose of comparing two posts to see which is longer.
Sep 6th at 1:30 pm
This was so smooth that I didn`t noticed and i`ve enjoyed full part.
Sep 6th at 1:32 pm
Keep up the good work!!!
Sep 6th at 1:56 pm
์Noticed the feature a while ago. Thanks for the good work!
Sep 6th at 2:18 pm
Great tool!
Sometime when you have nothing to do, perhaps you could add a couple of flashing icons:
[_] “Only 20 words? You sure you have anything to say?”
and
[_] “A-Hem! This is really getting long! Make your point and wrap it up, Pal”
Sep 6th at 2:27 pm
Hello!
the shortest
Sep 6th at 2:47 pm
Ups, that’s very nice
Sep 6th at 3:01 pm
I love to see the word count, being just anal enough to want to know how many words I generated at a single blow. Thanks, guys.
Sep 6th at 3:02 pm
Cool!
Sep 6th at 3:06 pm
Big fan!
Sep 6th at 4:16 pm
Noticed it.
Love it.
Thanks!
Sep 6th at 4:27 pm
Frozen Tootsies, being merely a squirrel, thanks you for this feature which makes blogging more convenient for creatures without opposable thumbs. After all, we squirrels must finish our drive for world domination – see http://www.bbc.co.uk/dna/h2g2/A1904519 – and every little bit helps.
Sep 6th at 5:17 pm
Sweeeet
Sep 6th at 5:50 pm
Gracias!
Sep 6th at 5:50 pm
Great tool! I’ll call it 87!
Sep 6th at 6:28 pm
Great!
Thank You
Sep 6th at 7:07 pm
This is great! I’m a big fan of the 55-word meme and I used to type my entries in Word, count them, and repost them here. This eliminates that. Thanks!
Sep 6th at 7:53 pm
I always write less than ten words!
Thanks. BYE!
WORD COUNT: 9
Sep 6th at 8:31 pm
Great idea, especially useful when participating in word-count specific memes…
Sep 6th at 9:20 pm
W00t! This feature rocks, baby! Now I’m typing much longer posts to get that counter see counting on
Kudos to WordPress.
Sep 6th at 9:30 pm
super!
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Sep 6th at 9:46 pm
excellent! This could also help many a high school student… I remember having to count the words in essays manually. With my pencil. When the Tandy was new and cool…
Sep 6th at 9:48 pm
Great…:-)
Sep 6th at 10:34 pm
I like this. Thanks.
Sep 6th at 10:37 pm
Nice! Had noticed it…
Sep 6th at 11:04 pm
YAY! No more counting the individual words with a pen pointed at the screen!
Sep 7th at 12:44 am
I love it! Thanks!
Sep 7th at 1:42 am
comes in handy!
Sep 7th at 2:19 am
This is cool and simple
Sep 7th at 2:44 am
As always yet another nice feature!!
Sep 7th at 3:33 am
Oh no, just when I thought I was getting myself over the compulsive addiction to write every day and to not go to bed without publishing, I have a new feature to hook me — word count! I wonder if this will make me less verbose or more? Thanks and keep up the great feature additions!
Sep 7th at 4:03 am
It gives wrong counts on my Chinese posts, and I don’t know if it will work for other non-western languages.
Sep 7th at 5:49 am
but the meaning of life is 42 not 87….