WARNING! This website is no longer actively maintained. It is an archive of 2 years work by Doug Belshaw who now blogs at dougbelshaw.com...
My last main post, How to write an application letter for a teaching-related job, took the number of words written by me on this blog over the 200,000 mark. It’s taken around 18 months to do this and it’s been (and continues to be) a great experience and something I love doing. I’d like to take this opportunity to thank those who comment on this blog and for the support, ideas and enthusiasm that other educators around the world with whom I have connected have given me. Thanks! 
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Congratulations Doug! Yours is one of the blogs I always read - interesting and thought-provoking. Your philiospohy of education is really refreshing and helps inform our thinking in the Media Department of University of Bedfordshire. I do hope you can keep it going - it's a lot of work.
Well Done, Doug.
I've been keeping up with your blog over the last year, and have found your insights both interesting and useful in my current role developing e-learning and in also in my future career in teaching.
I look forward to reading more from you in future and wish you all the best with your Job Applications!!!!!
200K. Wow, Doug - your thesis should be a doddle!
Well done
Just as a matter of interest, how did you count them? Does your software have an inbuilt counter, or were you suffering from excessive boredom one day?
Hey Doug! Good show! Thanks for all the good info you've provided not to mention the thought-provoking content. Keep it up!
Chris
Thanks for the positive comments, people - it's nice to know that I'm having an effect!
@Emma: If you look on the right sidebar of my blog you'll see that there's a counter on there. This is generated by a couple of plugins - Post Word Count and Post Count (both by the same author )
I found that plugin, but I couldn't get it to work.
I put it in the plugin folder as normal, but it didn't appear on the plugin page to activate it. Hence, when I put the code into the sidebar
<code><?php get_post_word_count(); ?></code> it just threw an error. Did you have to tweak it in any way?
I did it a while ago, but I've got in my sidebar:
<?php mdv_post_word_count(); ?> words in <?php mdv_post_count(); ?> posts
I've just had another look - I've tried copying your code & also substituting get for mdv - as that's what it said to use in the text file with the plugin. However, it is showing in your lists of plugins? I'm wondering if the reason that I'm getting the error is because I've not activated it - for the simple reason that it's not showing up in the list of plugins…
Try downloading the copies of the files I've got - they certainly do appear on my Plugins screen:
http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/post-count.php
http://teaching.mrbelshaw.co.uk/wp-content/plugins/post-word-count.php
(right-click and 'Save As…' to download)
It worked!
The links you gave me didn't work - infact when I installed them, it gave me an error message, telling people to contact you if the page wasn't right
I did a bit of fiddling about & realised what I'd done wrong. On the download page (http://dev.wp-plugins.org/browser/post-count/branches/wp-1.5) it's got a php file and a txt file. I just right clicked the php file & saved it. Unfortunately it was a link to another page, which said that it couldn't preview the file, would i like to download it. Once I'd downloaded that one, it was fine!
I did notice that it said WordPress 1.5 on it, but as I see that you have 2.1 & you also said you'd had it for ages, I thought I'd have a go. It works. I'm not nearly as prolific as you!