Most of my own WordPress sites have been up for longer than a decade at the time of writing, and I was wondering how much I had written in that time.
Post count notwithstanding, I was interested in the total word count of my output in that period of time.
Here’s a small function that retrieves just that.
Word Count in Posts
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| function getWordCountFromPosts () { | |
| $count = 0; | |
| $posts = get_posts( array( | |
| 'numberposts' => -1, | |
| 'post_type' => 'any' | |
| )); | |
| foreach( $posts as $post ) { | |
| $count += str_word_count( strip_tags( get_post_field( 'post_content', $post->ID ))); | |
| } | |
| $num = number_format_i18n( $count ); | |
| return $num; | |
| } |
Comments
But word count from posts is not all that a website adds up to: I have answered several thousand comments since then, and my answers may fill a whole book just by itself.
Here’s how to retrieve the comment word count for the current user:
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| function getWordCountCommentsCurrentUser() { | |
| $count = 0; | |
| $user_id = get_current_user_id(); | |
| $comments = get_comments( array( | |
| 'user_id' => $user_id | |
| )); | |
| foreach( $comments as $comment ) { | |
| $count += str_word_count( $comment->comment_content ); | |
| } | |
| return $count; | |
| } |
To retrieve the total word count in all comments instead, we can do much the same thing by leaving out the user_id parameter in the above query. Subtracting the total word count from the current user word count would then reveal the comment word count that everybody else has left on a site.
Both functions work outside of The Loop.
You got to love statistics 🙂