Condei Simple Post Stats for WordPress

A WordPress plugin for displaying simple content creation statistics, while also handling stylometry markers. Initially built for usage on my own website: https://alexboia.net/. See features below.

Features

• Track post publishing statistics per month and per year;
• Define content pillars for custom statistics (also per month and per year);
• Lightweight stylometry with the following supported metrics:
  • Average Sentence Length;
  • Hapax Legomena - Hapax to Types;
  • LIX;
  • Negativity;
  • Punctuation;
  • Shannon Entropy;
  • Yule's K.
• Lightweight and fast performance;
• Clean and intuitive interface;
• Available languages: English (default) and Romanian.

Some thoughts

I built this because I wanted a small editorial mirror inside WordPress. Something beyond an optimized vending machine, something simpler and more personal: a way to see my own publishing rhythm.

The first version was plain post statistics:

• how many posts I published per month,
• how many per year,
• the total count,
• the average,
• and the peak.

Nothing revolutionary. Just enough to see whether the blog is alive, asleep, or pretending to be a quarterly journal by accident.

Then I added content pillars as a sort of "what-if". WordPress categories are useful, but they do not always match the larger editorial directions of a site. A pillar lets me group several categories under one theme and see how much I actually write in that area. For example, a travel pillar can include several travel-related categories without changing the public taxonomy of the site.

The third layer is even more experimental: style metrics. For each post, the plugin can compute indicators as those mentioned above.

These metrics are first and foremost editorial signals:

• a high readability score may mean the article is dense;
• a high punctuation score may reveal a fragmented or rhetorical rhythm;
• a high Yule’s K may suggest too much lexical repetition;
• a high negativity score may simply mean that the article is doing honest critical work and should be left alone with a cup of coffee and a sharpened axe.

The useful part is less the number itself and more the question it raises: should I split this sentence, vary this vocabulary, reduce this repetition, soften this passage, or deliberately keep the text exactly as it is?

That is why the plugin supports preferred ranges. I do not treat them as universal standards. They are closer to a house style: a personal editorial profile for the kind of writing I want to publish.

Condei Simple Post Stats is free. It may also become part of a broader family of small WordPress tools for people who still care about writing, editing, and publishing in a calmer, more text-centered way.

The goal is modest: fewer distractions, better editorial awareness, and a writing environment that treats the author as an author, not as a block arrangement technician.

Credits

For the style metrics part I shamelessly borrowed the idea from Victor's Paradigma project.

Screenshots

Dashboard - default statistics

Dashboard - custom content pillar statistics

Dashboard - custom content pillar management

Dashboard - style metrics on post editor page

Dashboard - style metric settings

Requirements

• Requires WordPress at least: 6.8;
• Requires PHP at least: 7.4;
• Ideally mbstring PHP extension should be enabled, but not mandatory.

Install

Fetch the archive and download it as you would any WordPress plugin. Not currently available on WordPress plug-in directory and will not be.

Building Installation Kit

Use build\package-plugin.ps1

Parameter	Type	Default	Description
OutputPath	String	.\dist	Directory where the ZIP file will be created
PluginName	String	abnet-post-stats	Name of the plugin (used for folder and file names)
Version	String	1.0.0	Version number to embed in files
IncludeDevFiles	Switch	false	Include development files (examples, tests, etc.)
Verbose	Switch	false	Show detailed logging output

Call it either from the root plugin directory or from the build directory.

Example

.\build\package-plugin.ps1 -Version "1.1.0"

Will create an archive in the local .\dist folder (within the plugin root).

Version history

Version	Changes
1.0.0	Simple per year and per month statistics.
1.1.0	Introduced per year and per month statistics for custom content pillars; introduced stylometry.

Privacy

The plugin does not collect any data. It uses the current WordPress posts table to compute its statistics

Hooks

See here.

Next?

I don't really intend to update the code unless there's something really wrong with it or if I need anything else on top of what's already here. Feel free to fork and use as you please.

Donate

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