It’s been a couple of years since I developed the Most Popular Tags plugin, and I’m extremely happy to announce that it has been downloaded over ten thousand times from the WordPress plugin directory. Special thanks to anyone that’s tried it or, even better, liked it.

Jetpack supercharges your self‑hosted WordPress site with the awesome cloud power of WordPress.com.

It’s basically a single plugin that provides the best features on WordPress.com for use on self-hosted WordPress blogs. Worth it for the LaTeX support alone.

Version 0.5.7 of the Shortcode WordPress plugin adds a new shortcode, totalwords, that counts the total number of words in published posts. Note that the count is only an approximation: the total is calculated in SQL as the  sum of LENGTH(post_content) - LENGTH(REPLACE(post_content, ' ', '')) + 1, i.e. the sum of the length of all posts (including spaces) minus the length of all posts without any spaces (plus one). Words may not be counted properly if they are separated by more than one space, but the result should be sufficient in accuracy nonetheless.

As always, www.maxpagels.com/shortcodes.txt lists all of the shortcodes offered by the plugin, sorted by version.

A new version (0.5.6) of the Shortcode WordPress plugin has been released, allowing you to get the total number of images attached in all posts & pages with the code photosingallery.

As always, look at the text file located at www.maxpagels.com/shortcodes.txt for all available shortcodes.

The Senke des Chaos’ blog has a post containing a nice extension to the Most Popular Tags WordPress plugin: the ability to add a link to a full tag cloud page — in case you only want to show a few tags in the widget itself.

I’m considering merging these changes into the original plugin, but for now, take a look at the extension if you are interested in the added functionality.

Added two new shortcodes: futpostcount shows the number of posts set to publish in the future, and draftpostcount the number of drafts. Refer to the list for all available codes.