Word count gone?
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Hello, am I going crazy or has the word count been removed from the editor? Or is that now a paid only option too~
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Hey there, if you are using the Block Editor in a web browser, you’ll find it in the toolbar at the top left. Click on the circle i and you’ll be shown your word count (among other info)
If you are using the Classic Editor in a web browser instead, it should still be found at the bottom left of the writing area.
Hope that helped.
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Hello Justjennifer, nice to talk with you again.
Yep, I’m using block and yep, that’s where it used to be.
Now though all I have is the offset hamburger .
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Well, that’s certainly an *interesting* recent development! Thanks for pointing it out.
I’ve flagged your thread for Staff. Thanks for your patience.
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Ah, got it. We now have a new sidebar in the List View.
Open the slider hamburger (List View) and you’ll see two tabs:
List ViewandOutline. Word Count is at the bottom of Outline. (not a particularly useful position, IMO). -
(not a particularly useful position, IMO).
Agreed, and then some.
But hey, why make it a simple one step process when you can make it 2 or 3?
Or even click to open another screen and hide it somewhere in there?
Have they not heard of UX? (user experience)
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Adding a screenshot for others who look in on this thread. (temp screenshot)
It’s certainly not intuitive. Having the circle i right in the top toolbar was. (sigh)
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Reminds me of 20 thousand year old Persian proverb:
If it ain’t broke – don’t fix it.
I think the original was referencing a camel!Anyway thanks for your fast solution, and I mean fast.
I may possibly have checked out the other link and found it by accident, but then again, I have better things to do than play: “where might the WP developers have hidden xxx'”Good night
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Hi there,
Thanks @justjennifer for your assistance on this. I’ll be sure to relay this feedback to our developers, as I am sure you all were not the only ones having trouble rediscovering the location of this feature.
Thank you!
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Can’t open the image, but maybe the developers were in a rush?
I mean, with a little more thought, care and time, I am sure they could have made the font even smaller, down to almost impossible to read.
And as for light grey on a white background?
Nah mate, it can still, just, be read (although colour challenged users might disagree)- try #f0f0f0 for a really pathetic UX.
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Thank goodness I found this thread as I was missing word count and was wondering what my options were. Now I know. But the old way was beter.
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@146386q you should be able to see the new image in the same link I gave earlier. (temp screenshots)
Regardless, when saving a draft post or when publishing a post the same area in the Editor where the Word Count appears now is covered up by the Draft saved/View Preview and the Post published/View Post notifications.
If Word Count were positioned at the top of that same Outline column, it would solve this issue (but not the extra clicks it takes now to see it).
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@justjennifer, @postpunkmong and anyone else still struggling, it has moved- again. This time to the footer of that column, hard to see at a glance though as it is still in micro font and pale grey on a white background.
Nightmare for visually or colour impaired users.
Just wondering though, if it can be shifted so easily what’s wrong with it where it was?
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Just to note, I’ve passed on the feedback of this thread on regarding the new positioning and colour of the word count.
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Thank you @justjennifer! I would never have found it on my own. I hope WP takes account of the feedback. Why change things that work well as they are?
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<i>Why change things that work well as they are?</i>
Because that appears to be the new wordpress.com way. Take something that works fine, has worked fine, change it so it doesn’t and then blame the users instead of firing the code monkeys that did the terrible job.
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It’s worth noting that this was a change which came from the core WordPress software (which originates from WordPress.org). It is an open-source project, meaning that anyone can contribute to WordPress to help improve it; and if you’d like to get involved in coding WordPress then this is a good starting point:
https://make.wordpress.org/
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