How to: Add a Post Word Count Badge to WordPress

It is no secret that search engines are not necessarily fans of short content. Keeping track of which posts need more content is not always easy. The good news is you can now write code to show a word count badge in your admin dashboard to display total world count for each post. You will just have to add this to your functions.php function:

This function adds a new column labeled word count to your posts. It calculates the number of words in each post. Your columns will be sortable by world count. It is also possible to write account code to save word count as a metadata and update it every time a post is saved.