.. title: Another PyBlosxom plugin example .. slug: wordcount .. date: 2003-03-13 21:22:57 .. tags: python, dev, pyblosxom

This plugin registers with the prepareChain and for each entry it adds a \$wc metadata variable. The wordcount is sort of an expensive process since it requires the data of the entry to be populated and we only populate that on-demand. Thus we need to populate the \$wc variable on-demand as well.

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The effects of this is that I can add a \$wc variable to my story.html template file and you see a wc: thing on all of my entries.

This plugin and the entry that describes this plugin were written, tested, and documented in 15 minutes.

3/19/2003 - Moved code to here.
4/8/2003 - Updated plugin to new architecture.