Demo

Look at my b2 blog.

Direction

1. Open b2-include/b2templates.funtions.php.

2. Find:
function get_the_content($more_link_text='(more...)', $stripteaser=0, $more_file='') { global $id,$postdata,$more,$c,$withcomments,$page,$pages,$multipage,$numpages; global $HTTP_SERVER_VARS, $preview; global $querystring_start, $querystring_equal, $querystring_separator; $output = ''; if ($more_file != '') { $file=$more_file; } else { $file=$HTTP_SERVER_VARS['PHP_SELF']; } $content=$pages[$page-1]; $content=explode('<!--more-->', $content); if ((preg_match('/<!--noteaser-->/', $postdata['Content']) && ((!$multipage) || ($page==1)))) $stripteaser=1; $teaser=$content[0]; if (($more) && ($stripteaser)) $teaser=''; $output .= $teaser; if (count($content)>1) { if ($more) { $output .= '<a name="more'.$id.'"></a>'.$content[1]; } else { $output .= ' <a href="'.$file.$querystring_start.'p'.$querystring_equal.$id.$querystring_separator.'more'.$querystring_equal.'1#more'.$id.'">'.$more_link_text.'</a>'; } } if ($preview) { // preview fix for javascript bug with foreign languages $output = preg_replace('/\%u([0-9A-F]{4,4})/e', "'&#'.base_convert('\\1',16,10).';'", $output); } return($output); }

3. Add this code right after (it will give the 'number' of word count):
function get_words() { $content = get_the_content($more_link_text,$stripteaser,$more_file); $content = convert_bbcode($content); $content = convert_gmcode($content); $content = convert_smilies($content); $content = convert_chars($content,"html"); $stripper = ""; $wordcount = strip_tags($content,$stripper); $wordcount = explode(" ",$wordcount); $wordcount = count($wordcount); echo "$wordcount"; }

4. Save file > upload to b2-include directory (overwrite the existing one).

5. Now, we're going to edit the template. Go to your template page (http://blogURL/b2template.php). Add the below code anywhere you want the word count to show up (remove ' * ').
<*?php get_words()?> words in this post

6. Test it and you're done. :-)