A stupid simple word and character count extension. I write a lot of articles in Markdown and needed a simple way to count words. Note that this extension is just splitting on whitespace which means it will count embedded code a bit high. I could strip out code in Markdown (everything tabbed over once), but code counts in article length as well.
4/7/16: Accepted PR from @vankasteelj:
2/25/16: Accepted PR from @vankasteelj:
7/28/2015: Accepted PR from Toni to add a Spanish version. Got "word count as you type" working thanks to Prashanth Nethi helping me out on Slack!
7/25/2015: Switch to using a bottom statusbar. Fixes #1.
6/22/2014: Initial release.