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Word count plugin for Movable Type
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27 Jun 2002
MTWordCount is a Movable Type plugin that counts your entry’s words and inserts it into your page.
Tim Appnel has taken over the maintenance and support of this plugin as of Oct 2004.
Download
You can get MTWordCount 1.3 by downloading WordCount.zip.
Installation
Once you’ve downloaded and unzipped WordCount.zip, connect to your FTP server and open the directory where you have Movable Type installed.
Create a directory there called plugins if there isn’t one already.
Copy WordCount.pl to the plugins directory and set the permissions to 755.
Using MTWordCount
Once you’ve installed MTWordCount, using it is as simple as placing a new Movable Type tag in your template.
The <MTWordCount> tag goes between the <MTEntries></MTEntries> tags. The tag will count the number of words in your Main Entry text and your Extended Entry text and insert the count into your page.
Example:
<MTEntries> <p><MTEntryTitle><br> <MTEntryExcerpt> (<MTWordCount> Words) </MTEntries>
New in version 1.4 is the <MTImageCount> tag. Authors of photo blogs can use this tag just like WordCount to get a count of all the images in an entry.
License
Like our other freeware, this plugin is released under the open-source MIT License. In plain English, that means you can do whatever you want with the software, including modifying it, selling it, or eating it, but we’re not responsible for anything that goes wrong.
Revision History
1.4 - Aug 31, 2002
(New) New tag: <MTImageCount>.
(Changed) Speed improvements.
1.3 - July 14, 2002
(Changed) Text inside HTML tags is ignored.
(Changed) Text is split on any whitespace instead of just the space character.
1.2 - July 14, 2002
(New) Better error handling.
1.1 - June 30, 2002
(Fix) If Entry text or Extended Entry text is empty, an error may occur.
1.0 - June 27, 2002
Initial release.
Comments
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September 2, 2003 11:45 AM
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mashby
September 27, 2003 10:17 AM
I love this plugin! It works perfectly, and you're total weblog count works wonders too, so thank you for that too. The only thing that I wish it had was a method for adding a comma separator as needed. For example, 10,000 verses 10000. Is there anyway to do this, or have I missed something?
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October 10, 2003 7:04 AM
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Joshu'a M
October 20, 2003 1:26 PM
Is there anyway to incorporate this into mtarchivelist so that the wordcount will show up beside each entry reference?
Megalion
October 21, 2003 12:23 AM
I'm surprised no one has asked for an option to count JUST the words in the Extended Entry. Been reading through everything in here and EntryCount and haven't found anything that indicates that either plugin could do it. Did I miss something? Or if I didn't... any chance it could be added? Thanks
JM
October 22, 2003 11:00 AM
I am getting a similar error (as reported Jun 30, 2002) with other MT plugins. Could you please specify how you got around the problem ? MT::App::CMS=HASH(0x140f18) Use of uninitialized value in split at plugins
Aine
October 26, 2003 5:12 PM
I'm trying to figure out how to limit the word count to just one category, or to do it by categories instead of on each individual entry. I've looked all over the MT site and MTplugins site, but haven't found the answer, and since I'm relatively new to MT, I'm not sure how to go about it. I got it to count the words for every single one of my entries, but what I would like is to be able to display in the sidebar, by category, the number of words in each category. Can you help me out?
Michael Heraghty
November 8, 2003 6:23 AM
Does this plugin still work for version 2.64?
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November 13, 2003 9:03 AM
Workin' in a code mine
Excerpt: I created a modified version of MTWordCount that has the property 'exclude' that allows selection of just the Body or just the Extended Entry.
Michael
November 13, 2003 9:08 AM
This plugin works fine in 2.63. MegaLion: I also wanted the ability to just get Body or Extended Count. Go to my web page for a link to a modified version. Note: While my code works for me, this is really my first try with Perl. Luckily, this is a small plugin to work on.
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November 19, 2003 5:31 PM
Rambling On
Excerpt: I don’t suppose this has any practical value but I came across a script for totalling the word count of a MovableType blog (which I’ve incorporated into the title bar of both my blogs). The original script was posted by...
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December 17, 2003 2:30 PM
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September 28, 2004 2:43 PM
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