Word count and time to read for articles in Hexo blog.
The word count is based on Unicode® Standard Annex #29. Thus, when multiple languages are present in the post content, the total word count can be accurately counted.
With the power of Rust, this plugin is faster than almost all other Hexo plugins that offer similar functionality. See the benchmark below.
npm install hexo-word-counter
hexo clean
You can set options of hexo-word-counter in the Hexo's _config.yml
(which locates in the root dir of your blog):
symbols_count_time:
symbols: true
time: true
total_symbols: true
total_time: true
exclude_codeblock: false
wpm: 275
suffix: "mins."
If symbols_count_time
option is not specified, the default parameters will be used.
wpm
– Words Per Minute. Default: 275
. You can check this here.
200
275
350
suffix
– If time to read less then 60 minutes, added suffix as string parameter.\
If not defined, mins.
will be used as default.exclude_codeblock
– Allow to exclude all content inside code blocks for more accurate words counting.\
If not defined, false
will be used as default.Note for Chinese users: if you write posts in Chinese at most cases (without mixed English), recommended to set wpm
to 300
.\
But if you usually mix your posts with English, set wpm
to 275
will be nice.
This plugin integrated in «NexT» and after plugin enabled in main Hexo config, you may adjust options in NexT config:
post_meta:
item_text: true
symbols_count_time:
separated_meta: true
item_text_total: false
You have to prepare both Node.js and rust toolchain to develop this plugin.
git clone https://github.com/next-theme/hexo-word-counter.git
cd hexo-word-counter
npm install
You can run tests with or without coverage feedback:
npm test
npm run test-cov
And you can install the development version in your blog:
cd blog
npm i ../path/to/hexo-word-counter
If you're a theme developer, you can use the following code to integrate this plugin.
The syntax is different depending on the templating engine of the theme.
For Nunjucks / Swig:
{{ symbolsCount(post) }}
For Ejs:
<%- symbolsCount(post) %>
For Pug / Jade:
span=symbolsCount(post)
In the latter part, we use Nunjucks syntax as an example.
{{ symbolsTime(post) }}
Or with predefined parameters:
{{ symbolsTime(post, awl, wpm, suffix) }}
{{ symbolsCountTotal(site) }}
{{ symbolsTimeTotal(site) }}
Or with predefined parameters:
{{ symbolsTimeTotal(site, awl, wpm, suffix) }}
See GitHub actions.
Plugin installed | Time of hexo g |
---|---|
Baseline | 19.48s |
hexo-word-counter | 19.63s (+0.78%) |
hexo-symbols-count-time | 19.86s (+1.99%) |
hexo-wordcount | 21.44s (+10.08%) |
hexo-reading-time | 23.81s (+22.26%) |