Word Count

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

Requirements

• Contensio 2.0 or later

Installation

Composer

composer require contensio/plugin-word-count

Manual

Copy the plugin directory and register the service provider via the admin plugin manager.

No migrations or configuration required.

How it works

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.

TextExtractor

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().

Output

The word count appears in the post meta row as:

· 1,234 words

Numbers are formatted with number_format() for readability (thousands separator).

Hook reference