Posted: Wednesday, September 5th, 2007 at 11:19 pm. Filed in Features.
Tags: word count, words
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.
September 5th, 2007 at 11:30 pm
This is sweet!
Thank you!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:49 pm
a helpful feature. thanks! : )
September 5th, 2007 at 11:52 pm
Nice feature, Thanks
September 5th, 2007 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
September 5th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
Hmm…I saw this feature earlier, so its not that new, but awesome none-the-less!
September 5th, 2007 at 11:54 pm
September 5th, 2007 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?
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 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!
September 6th, 2007 at 12:14 am
Very helpful. Thanks.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:30 am
alright! I can use this…I’m always second guessing my posts
September 6th, 2007 at 12:39 am
Excellent! As an editor, this really helps! Kudos!
September 6th, 2007 at 12:57 am
LOL, any prizes for the highest word count?
September 6th, 2007 at 12:59 am
Less is more.
Nice.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Will help me to dont type too much…
September 6th, 2007 at 1:05 am
Cool, thanks.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:08 am
Another nifty feature that I may have use for in the future.
Thanks again, WP! ^_^
September 6th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Nice…:)
September 6th, 2007 at 1:13 am
Excellent thank you.
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:24 am
cool very helpful! thanks
September 6th, 2007 at 1:40 am
I just noticed this the other day, very cool! Thanks!
September 6th, 2007 at 1:44 am
Go WP!
September 6th, 2007 at 1:57 am
You guys just keep getting better and better!
Thank you, thank you, thank you WordPress!
September 6th, 2007 at 1:58 am
So, what’s a good number to shoot for? I’m partial to keeping it 250-300.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:01 am
Very helpful. Thanks so much!
September 6th, 2007 at 2:15 am
Cool
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 2:33 am
Great…
September 6th, 2007 at 2:36 am
keren…(cool..)
September 6th, 2007 at 2:46 am
Sweet
All we need now is a spell check, and wordpress will BE the internets!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:04 am
Thanks. I really appreciate this addition.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:07 am
This is really great for 55-word writers!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:41 am
awesome!!! and thank you so much!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:48 am
Good God. My latest post counts in at 6,453 words.
Kim
September 6th, 2007 at 3:58 am
Noticed that the other day (and thought I had been overlooking it). I like.
September 6th, 2007 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)
September 6th, 2007 at 4:06 am
so sweeeeeeet
September 6th, 2007 at 4:17 am
thanks for the feature.
finally, i know if my post is too lengthy..
September 6th, 2007 at 4:47 am
Nice work ! But the description is really funny ..
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:16 am
now I’ll know when to stop babbling
September 6th, 2007 at 5:18 am
You ought to have kept the nested screenshot thing going for at least a few more levels
September 6th, 2007 at 5:35 am
every now and then an idea comes along that simply works better.
I wish everybody well ~ Jeques
September 6th, 2007 at 5:46 am
Cool. I noticed this recently. Good stuff.
September 6th, 2007 at 6:07 am
Cool!
September 6th, 2007 at 6:17 am
I appreciate this feature, Thanks
September 6th, 2007 at 6:43 am
Neat!
September 6th, 2007 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!
September 6th, 2007 at 7:24 am
helpful!
tnx
September 6th, 2007 at 7:30 am
I sure need this as my posts are long!
September 6th, 2007 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
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:25 am
cool !!!!! now can restrict the number of words ……
September 6th, 2007 at 9:33 am
Not, realy helpfull …:(
September 6th, 2007 at 10:03 am
oo
September 6th, 2007 at 10:44 am
Another wonderful addition to wordpress’ features. Thank you!
Mama Kelly
September 6th, 2007 at 10:49 am
Good show
September 6th, 2007 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!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:07 am
Good job, guys!
September 6th, 2007 at 11:11 am
I like this feature. I’m sure it will come in handy from time to time. Thanks.
September 6th, 2007 at 11:39 am
Nice, thats kinda helpful
Just to remain in limits
September 6th, 2007 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…
September 6th, 2007 at 11:52 am
very nice.
very nice.
September 6th, 2007 at 12:07 pm
nice features…
September 6th, 2007 at 12:52 pm
good addition!
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:30 pm
This was so smooth that I didn`t noticed and i`ve enjoyed full part.
September 6th, 2007 at 1:32 pm
Keep up the good work!!!
September 6th, 2007 at 1:56 pm
์Noticed the feature a while ago. Thanks for the good work!
September 6th, 2007 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”
September 6th, 2007 at 2:27 pm
Hello!
the shortest
September 6th, 2007 at 2:47 pm
Ups, that’s very nice
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 3:02 pm
Cool!
September 6th, 2007 at 3:06 pm
Big fan!
September 6th, 2007 at 4:16 pm
Noticed it.
Love it.
Thanks!
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 5:17 pm
Sweeeet
September 6th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Gracias!
September 6th, 2007 at 5:50 pm
Great tool! I’ll call it 87!
September 6th, 2007 at 6:28 pm
Great!
Thank You
September 6th, 2007 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!
September 6th, 2007 at 7:53 pm
I always write less than ten words!
Thanks. BYE!
WORD COUNT: 9
September 6th, 2007 at 8:31 pm
Great idea, especially useful when participating in word-count specific memes…
September 6th, 2007 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.
September 6th, 2007 at 9:30 pm
super!
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September 6th, 2007 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…
September 6th, 2007 at 9:48 pm
Great…:-)
September 6th, 2007 at 10:34 pm
I like this. Thanks.
September 6th, 2007 at 10:37 pm
Nice! Had noticed it…
September 6th, 2007 at 11:04 pm
YAY! No more counting the individual words with a pen pointed at the screen!
September 7th, 2007 at 12:44 am
I love it! Thanks!
September 7th, 2007 at 1:42 am
comes in handy!
September 7th, 2007 at 2:19 am
This is cool and simple
September 7th, 2007 at 2:44 am
As always yet another nice feature!!
September 7th, 2007 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!
September 7th, 2007 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.
September 7th, 2007 at 5:49 am
but the meaning of life is 42 not 87….