Displays the word count for each post and page in the WordPress admin panel.
As of April 2026, Article Word Count is a WordPress pages plugin with 2.0K+ active installations and a 5/5 rating from 3 reviews. It has been downloaded 13K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.5+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2023. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 45% this week. Top alternative: WP-PageNavi.
This plugin adds a custom column to the list of posts and pages in the WordPress admin area, and displays the word count for each post and page in the column. It also makes the column sortable, so you can easily sort the posts and pages by their word count.
• If a “word_count” postmeta exists, sorting by “Word Count” uses it for precise numeric ordering.
• Otherwise, sorting uses an approximate calculation based on spaces.
Adds the word count of each post to the post list in the admin area and makes the column sortable.
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very happy with this, I was looking for an easy way to get a word count for all the pages (not posts) on my site, and various code snippets didn’t work with divi.
I installed this, activated and boom, there’s the word count so I can do it.
Does exactly what it says on the tin, good job!
Hi Priit
Thank you for this fine lil’ plugin!
I had to the following lines of code (at the end) to make the word count column sortable in the reusable blocks view:
add_filter('manage_edit-wp_block_sortable_columns', function($columns) {
$columns['word_count'] = 'word_count';
return $columns;
});
Consider adding it to the plugin:)
Thanks again!
Oliver
Super light-weight plugin to add the word count to post and page list.
| WordPress | 4.5+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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