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I’m sorry to be so late responding to this review but the free version of WP Word Count does not add any columns to the post and page displays inside of the WordPress admin. WP Word Count Pro does but the feature you are describing has never been a part of the free version. In fact, WP Word Count doesn’t “offer many columns that you can add” at all. There’s zero such functionality in my plugin.

For what it’s worth, I’ve tested WP Word Count Pro with the latest release of Yoast’s SEO plugin just in case there was some kind of issue but I don’t see any problems with his plugin and the “Words” column WP Word Count Pro adds.

Is it possible you meant to leave this review for the CH Easy Word Count plugin instead? You have left a similar review on that plugin as well.

Maybe in a future release. Let me think about how best to implement that. I can’t promise a timeframe for it to be included right now but I’ll add it to my list.

Thanks for checking out the plugin and offering feedback. I appreciate it.

Version 3.0 has a new method for initialing calculating your word counts. If you want to give that a shot and let me know if you see improvement I would greatly appreciate it.

This happens sometimes with large sites running on cost-efficient hosting.

The Pro version of WP Word Count has an incremental word count calculation routine that performs much better than what the free version uses. I plan on implementing that into the free version in a future release.

Thanks for making this report.

Issue #1, in the free version, should be fixed by deactivating and activating the plugin again. This will cause a recalculation to occur which should reassign the counts correctly. That’s not a really great solution but I hope to someday include the same optional, manual calculation the Pro version has into the free release but I can’t make promises when that will happen.

Issue #2 is definitely a bug and I’m working on getting the fix out soon.

Thanks again.

– Brian.

I’m not sure what to make of that. Typically your wp-config should look “something” like this:

define(‘DB_CHARSET’, ‘utf8’);
define(‘DB_COLLATE’, ”);

The DB_CHARSET can sometimes be a variation like ‘utf8mb4’ but I’m pretty sure that’s dependent on your host.

Right now I don’t see anything in the plugin code that would create those database errors. WP Word Count, like I mentioned above, is just pulling those values from your wp-config.

I’ll look into it more when I get some time this week but right now I’m at a loss.

– Brian.

Hey Rafael,

Do you have other plugins that create their own database tables? If so, are those working correctly? WP Word Count makes its own table to store data and the character set and collation are pulled automatically with the built-in get_charset_collate() function provided by WordPress.

So I’m not sure if it’s a hosting issue (out of date mySQL install, maybe?) or something else. This is the first I’ve heard of someone having such an issue with free or the Pro release.

– Brian.