TD Word Count v0.43 now available (Updated)

Update 12:26pm PST: In the comments Sterling pointed out that the title still showed the text ‘v0.41′ and not the new version, so I fixed that and also added another code change that was forthcoming in v0.5 which dealt with authors that didn’t have any posts not showing up. I also changed the title of this post to v0.43 rather than write an all new post.

During the weekly live radio show I host last Friday 3/23/07 (show #324) fellow VTOR Author and group blogger JohnnyRS pointed out that TD Word Count v0.41 was counting attachments as unpublished posts. This made it appear as if there were a lot more drafts waiting in the wings than there actually were. I fixed this bug an am releasing v0.42 v0.43 today. Only two four lines of code have changed over 0.41 and if you don’t use attachments on your blog you won’t even notice any change. The bug doesn’t impact the published word stats, only unpublished stats.

You can download v0.42 v0.43 at the TD Word Count page. This bug is also present in v0.3, 0.4 and v0.41.

The next major version of TD Word Count will be v0.5 and include a few new features, some requested, some surprising perhaps. I might do this as a beta branch and then make v0.6 the next official major release. No official release date is available or planned at this time but I am actually using a very early version of v0.5 here. More testing required before being kicked out to others.

Wanted to take a minute and thank a few folks who I’ve noticed have blogged about and/or are using TD Word Count:

  • riceri.se
  • Folded space
  • Teacher TabletPC
  • Big Lazy SysAdmin - foreign language, I hope the feedback is fit for general audiences (somebody who understands the language, please holler below if it’s not)
  • The most comprehensive review of TD Word Count to date that I’ve seen has come from a fellow developer and friend Sterling “Chip” Camden at Chips Quips. Not sure if he’s kept up with the newer versions of TD Word Count or not, but when I just reread his review I noticed that he too had mentioned that TD Word Count had identified attachments in v0.3, so I owe him thanks as well. This was an unintentional “feature.” As for his recommendation about making the stats viewable outside the admin area, my plan is to make that available in v0.5 or v0.6 as that has been among the most requested future features.

    As a sidenote I should also mention that Sterling regularly mentions people on his blog that use his Wordpress tag cloud plugin, which I think is a great thing to do and have shamelessly emulated his ongoing practice in this post.

At the risk of missing mentioning many other bloggers using TD Word Count (definitely not intentional) because there have been literally hundreds of downloads to date, if you have blogged about TD Word Count plugin please feel free to let me know below when/where (trackbacks are fine) so I can read your feedback about the plugin. From the comments I’ve read out there so far the plugin has been well received. I’ve been using it myself on most our blogs and am glad to see others are finding it useful too. I look forward to see what folks have to say about v0.5 when it gets released into the wild.

Happy blogging to you!

Trackbacks & Pings

  1. Chipping the web - par for the course -- Chip’s Quips on 26 Mar 2007 at 8:35 pm

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  2. Losing it[1] on 12 Apr 2007 at 4:07 pm

    Statisitcally speaking…

    About a month ago, I mentioned the list of the most prolific bloggers. Since then, my post count has gone from 1,900 to 1,998[1], and the list has developed into a user-editable Wiki-style thingy.
    But looking at all these sites with lots of posts made…

Comments

  1. TD Scripts wrote:

    Oops! Guess it’s time for v0.43 lol.

    Posted 25 Mar 2007 at 2:21 pm

  2. TD Scripts wrote:

    v0.43 has the title fix — thanks Sterling — and also implements another fix that I already had in v0.5 which deals with not showing stats for authors with no posts.

    Will update the post and change the title to v0.43 rather than write an all new post.

    Posted 25 Mar 2007 at 2:36 pm

  3. TD Scripts wrote:

    There were only 3 downloads of the v0.42 plugin before I pulled the change for v0.43 so my apologies to those three downloaders.

    Posted 25 Mar 2007 at 2:50 pm

  4. Les wrote:

    Nice plugin - thanks. It’s quite alarming how many words I’ve written! (Could have done a novel or three….)

    Just one thing - the count doesn’t distinguish between posts and pages under WP 2.1.3. Is this intentional, unintentional or “just one of those things”?

    Posted 12 Apr 2007 at 3:42 pm

  5. TD Scripts wrote:

    Hi Les - Pages and posts are counted together that is correct, as it is meant to cover all published documents, not only posts. It also helps to unveil documents you might not have known you had (that part is a curious side affect).

    Do you think it would be handy to have it separate out posts from pages? It wouldn’t be too difficult to separate that in a future version.

    Posted 13 Apr 2007 at 6:44 pm

  6. Les wrote:

    It might be useful to have it broken down. What I forgot to mention was that the “unpublished” count pointed out something I’d missed - I’d somehow set an old post as “private”, and I’d never have known without your plugin :).

    Posted 13 Apr 2007 at 7:01 pm

  7. Aaron wrote:

    Oops. It looks like it did get mangled. Here are the important parts:
    $tdwordcount_data = get_option(’tdwordcount_data’);
    print(number_format($tdwordcount_data['numposts_pub']));
    print(number_format($tdwordcount_data['numwords_pub']));

    Posted 21 Apr 2007 at 12:22 pm

  8. Luke Gedeon wrote:

    Looks like Wordpress 2.3.1 broke Word Count V0.43

    Are you already working on this or should I dig in and try to find out what happened?

    Posted 09 Nov 2007 at 4:24 pm

  9. Max wrote:

    TD Word Count v0.43 does not work with WordPress 2.3.X
    Invalid argument, division by zero and so on… :(

    Posted 27 Nov 2007 at 3:57 pm

  10. TD Scripts wrote:

    Hi Max and Luke, version 0.51 is now available for download and works fine with v2.3.X which fixes a few things and adds a new section. Please give that a try and if you have any issues leave comments in that thread.

    Posted 10 Dec 2007 at 8:45 pm

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