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Ever since I’ve started getting paid to blog I’ve been very interested in the number of words that I use in a post. Why? Because I have to make sure I get a certain number of words in order to get paid. Usually I’m so long winded it’s not a problem, but how many people can really say if they’ve type 300 words or not?

For a while now I’ve been using the word statistics plugin for wordpress to count the words. I haven’t been that happy with it, because it doesn’t handle URLs and things that well. However, if it says 500 words and I need to do 300 then it has been helpful. However, the word statistics plugin for wordpress is really overkill for my needs. It tries to analyze my writing style and I don’t really want to know about that.

I recently read about a word count extension for firefox. I’m thinking I might give it a try since I really like the things that have been built for firefox. I like the idea that I can just highlight the part I want and then get a wordcount. Even better would be if it did the count in real time somewhere in the firefox browser, but beggars can’t be choosers.

Combine this extension with the new built in spell check for firefox and I’m not sure I’ll be using IE anytime soon.