Best word counter plugins for WordPress
The most popular word counter plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Simple Word Counter leads with 100+ active installs, ahead of Word Counter Plus (80+) and Name (10+). All 6 plugins tagged “word counter” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 6 word counter plugins
- 1.
Simple Word CounterThe most installed word counter plugin, with 100+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.4.2.
- 2.
Word Counter Plus80+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 3.
Name10+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 13 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 3.5.2.
- 4.
Post Word Counter and Thumbnail Checker10+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 5.
Post Word CounterFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.1.16.
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DL Smart Text CounterFewer than 10 active installs. No reviews yet, updated 5 months ago.
All 6 plugins tagged “word counter”
Simple Word Counter
Down in the last 7 days:36#14,736by virvit8 years ago
Very simple plugin to count words in your posts. It's usefull for SEO optimization to match some low and high words limit for search engines.
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Word Counter Plus
Up in the last 7 days:175#17,700by Mofizul Islam10 days ago
Track, sort, and filter word counts for your WordPress posts right from the admin Posts screen.
- Installs
- 80+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 11/day
Name
Down in the last 7 days:125#33,311by faragas14 years ago
Wordcounter replaces wordpress's built in word counter feature and adds a character count as well.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Word Counter and Thumbnail Checker
#46,867by ratulkhan5 years ago
Simple Post Word Counter and Check which post has thumbnail or not.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Post Word Counter
Up in the last 7 days:5,644#57,185by Mrinal Haque4 years ago
Post Word Counter is a WordPress plugin to show the word counter and time counter in single post.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
DL Smart Text Counter
Down in the last 7 days:1,981#63,702by Arun Sharma5 months ago
Character count, word count, and sentence count tool with shortcode [dl_smart_text_counter].
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day