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
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:
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 