FredTheAnt

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Just tried your fix; didn’t work. :\

Not sure I understand why saving $content to a temp variable would help? Why would you expect different results for…

$temp = $content;
$word_count = str_word_count( strip_tags( $temp ) );

versus…

$word_count = str_word_count( strip_tags( $content ) );

?

Both return the same value for $word_count, at least when I run it. Do you get different results?

Regarding the ‘1 minutes’ thing, your code is hardcoded to show ‘minutes’ (plural) by default:

$full .= 'minutes</p></span>';

Couldn’t wait. Debugged it myself. ??

The strip_tags function is removing more text than, I think, you expected it to. On the blog post I linked to above, it was truncating everything subsequent to the first inline html element included with my blog post. Specifically, it returned everything up to ‘At one point I spent something like $50 bucks on a’ and truncated the rest. The next word in that sentence is encapsulated in an anchor element. My quick fix was to remove all occurrences of strip_tags from your code. The word counts might be slightly inflated now, but that’s better than severely reduced. There’s probably a better way to address the situation, but I’m not a PHP guy. I’ll leave that to you.

On a side note, I went ahead and added this:

$full .= $time_in_minutes == 1 ? 'minute' : 'minutes';
$full .= '</p></span>';

Maybe in a future release, something like that can be included as well so that we see “1 minute” rather than “1 minutes”.

– Nick

Just updated to 12.02.08… same issue….