Simple Word Counter

Demian2025年11月20日

★★★★★5

Works perfectly, thank you!

Arkylie (Kilyle)2025年10月1日

★★★★★1

Just like the last such plugin I tried, this counts em-dashes as word-connectors. This is not how the em-dash works. A hyphen connects words: jack-in-the-box counts as a single word. An em-dash *separates* phrases. It's a way of stopping one thought to bring in another one, kinda like parentheses, or for conveying a kind of frantic, jumbled sequence of events. The following would be twelve words each: He wanted to see her again—if only for one bitter moment. For her sake—though it pained him greatly—he would do it. Panting, he turned—glanced around frantically—spotted her—rushed to her side. Your program would count these as 11, 10, and 9, respectively. Individually, that's not a huge amount, but when you start dealing with longer content, it adds up to a lot. I checked with a piece with a known count of 21,586; this plugin claimed 21,356, a discrepancy of 230, probably close to the number of em-dashes in the tale. Please fix this. I would like to be notified if you do. P.S. You might also look into the en-dash and determine its function; it doesn't work like a hyphen, but is a little more complicated. The em-dash *never* connects words, but the en-dash might (though it's also much rarer). Also, there's a video by languagejones that explains why it's actually kinda hard to define a word, discussing the whole hyphens thing, so you might give that a look.

Panagiotis Drivilas2025年9月5日

★★★★★3

Sometimes it thinks I have selected text when in reality I just clicked a menu to navigate. For example in reddit when clicked to view from Hot to New, and it makes the popup menu to close so it can show the word count popup.

gilles charvet2025年4月17日

★★★★★3

Dommage, cela ne fonctionne pas sur les sites qui m'intéressaient

Vishal Chaudhari2025年4月8日

★★★★★3

does what it does excellently, a little too excellently. It keeps doing that and stealing the cursor when you are trying to select and edit something. most often keystrokes wont register, making it very annoying when you are working on say email or some document.

Mia Ramirez2025年3月21日

★★★★★1

I used this to check word counts for students, but it does not work with Canvas using Google.

Freddy2025年3月11日

★★★★★1

Doesn't seem to be working for me for whatever reason. Nothing happens when I highlight text in regular and incognito.

Yannis Samatas (ArtKreta)2025年3月8日

★★★★★5

This is a very convenient and well-designed extension, but I’ve encountered an issue: it doesn’t seem to work within the Gutenberg editor on WordPress sites. I hope this compatibility can be addressed in a future update—it would make the tool even more versatile and useful!

Kay Langfitt2025年2月23日

★★★★★4

Hello, would you be able to add Reedsy to the list of websites this would work on?

Hassan Radwan2025年1月21日

★★★★★4

Excellent Plugin, what i love most about it is its simplicity. No fancy stuff, just character counting. As an SEO specialist, i use this to count characters for Meta Titles and Meta descriptions. However I gave it four stars because the plugin only counts characters without spacing. Google's counts the Meta Titles and Meta descriptions counts characters with spacing. My message to the developer is please give us the option to count the characters with spacing and/or without spacing. A toggle feature in the options to select what would be displayed would be so helpful. Thank you