As the year is coming to a close a lot of sites are creating year in review style posts. I love these because I find it interesting how my stuff compares to them and I try to find little nuggets of information on what I should be doing better.
Alex King has been doing this for the past 9 years and has created a little gist for generating a lot of useful stats.
To take this a step further I wanted to count the total words I published for the year and I put together a little script if you’d like to do the same:
| <?php | |
| $words = 0; | |
| $posts = query_posts([ | |
| 'posts_per_page' => –1, | |
| 'year' => '2014', | |
| ]); | |
| foreach ($posts as $post) { | |
| $words += str_word_count($post->post_content); | |
| } | |
| echo 'Total Words: '. number_format($words); | |
| ?> |
Granted this method is simple and the php function str_word_count is not entirely accurate. If you’d like to get fancy a Word Stats plugin does exist but I found that it wouldn’t work at all with the current version.
