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nschaeferhoff/Count words in WordPress post without HTML tags

Created November 22, 2017 11:36
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Count words in WordPress post without HTML tags
function word_count() {
$content = get_post_field( 'post_content', $post->ID );
$word_count = str_word_count( strip_tags( $content ) );
return $word_count;
}
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