A couple weeks ago Sterling asked me what I was using for counting words. At the time I’d been using some code I threw together shortly after switching to Wordpress. It worked well for me because it had all the pertinent post information from the blog on a single page.

I decided it was time to convert this code into a Wordpress plugin and make available for others to download and use. The conversion process went so smoothly that I added some additional features and converted a couple other external scripts into separate plugins. My goal now is to work on converting as much of the customizations and mods I’ve written and am using around our various WP-powered blogs into plugins, widgets and/or code that can more easily be shared with other Wordpress users.

Screencast using Windows Media Encoder
Last night I’d been wanting to demo Windows Media Encoder (free) as a screencast tool so instead of writing README.txt documentation for my first Wordpress plugin, I took ten minutes and recorded the screencast above displaying how to use my very first created Wordpress plugin.

I will come back and update this post with a link to where this plugin can actually be downloaded. Really, I’m not trying to tease, I just have a few more minor things to do first. In the meantime have a look at the screencast above and let me know if you are interested in using this plugin.

Update 7/26/2006 5:00am PST: Download the TD Word Count plugin here and leave specific comments/feedback on the plugin here.

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