Jekyll plugin to give you the total / average word count, as well as shortest & longest post information across all posts.

By Matt Gemmell / Jake Lee, license: CC0 Universal (public domain)

To install, copy the posts-word-count.rb file into your Jekyll _plugins folder.

For only published posts: {% published_posts_word_count PARAM %}

For published & draft posts {% posts_word_count PARAM %}

Where PARAM is one of:

• total (total word count of all posts)
• average (average word count across all posts)
• total_characters (total character count of all posts)
• average_characters (total average count of all posts)
• longest (longest word count of any post)
• longest_post_index (index in site.posts of longest post)
• longest_post_title (title of longest post)
• longest_post_url (url of longest post)
• shortest (shortest word count of any post)
• shortest_post_index (index in site.posts of shortest post)
• shortest_post_title (title of shortest post)
• shortest_post_url (url of shortest post)

For example, a page displaying overall stats and the shortest & longest posts could include:

### Totals

Total site words: {% posts_word_count total %} (average {% posts_word_count average %} per post)

Total site characters: {% posts_word_count total_characters %} (average {% posts_word_count average_characters %} per post)

### Published post records 

Longest post: <a href="{% published_posts_word_count longest_post_url %}">{% published_posts_word_count longest_post_title %}</a> ({% published_posts_word_count longest %} words)

Shortest post: <a href="{% published_posts_word_count shortest_post_url %}">{% published_posts_word_count shortest_post_title %}</a> ({% published_posts_word_count shortest %} words)