hugo/content/functions/countwords.md

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title	linktitle	description	godocref	date	publishdate	lastmod	categories	tags	signature	workson	hugoversion	relatedfuncs	deprecated	aliases
countwords	countwords	Counts the number of words in a string that has been passed to it.		2017-02-01	2017-02-01	2017-02-01	functions	counting word count				countrunes	false	/functions/countrunes/ /functions/countwords/

countwords tries to convert the passed content to a string and counts each word in it. The template function works similar to the .WordCount page variable.

{{ "Hugo is a static site generator." | countwords }}
<!-- outputs a content length of 6 words.  -->