Wordcount returns inaccurate numbers

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Hello,

I have this code in a shortcode:

{{ range $.Page.Site.Pages }}
  
    {{ .Title }} - {{ .WordCount }} - {{ .FuzzyWordCount }} <br/>

{{ end }}

It returns:

Article 1 - 0 - 0
Article 2 - 7 - 100
Article 3 - 9 - 100
Article 4 - 0 - 0
Article 5 - 0 - 0
Article 6 - 0 - 0
Article 7 - 0 - 0
Article 8 - 0 - 0

But the actual word count per article is as follows:

Article 1 - 1
Article 2 - 6
Article 3 - 9
Article 4 - 1189
Article 5 - 0
Article 6 - 508
Article 7 - 0
Article 8 - 872

What am I missing?

Thanks for any insights,

(Hugo v0.14 on Windows 7 SP1)

2

What language is the articles written in?

EDIT: There is a known issue about wordcount and autogenerated summaries for CJK languages. I added the RuneCount method a while ago, but there is an open discussion about it on GitHub.

3

English, with no special characters as far as I can tell (not even a dollar or euro sign).

The files themselves are saved as .md files and created with hugo new.

4

The problem is with looping through the pages in the shortcode. If I put this code in my template file, it works correctly:

{{ range $.Site.Pages }}
  
    {{ .Title }} - {{ .WordCount }} - {{ .FuzzyWordCount }} <br/>

{{ end }}

$.Site.Pages can, however, not be used in a shortcode and triggers the *Data is not a field of struct type hugolib.ShortcodeWithPage error message. I know of pages and nodes, but not of the ShortcodeWithPage type.

So how to access all pages in a shortcode correctly?

5

You can not. This isn’t what the shortcodes are built for. This is the chicken and the egg; it should be documented better what part of the page’s state and the site’s state that is available in the shortcode – but the surrounding content isn’t.

6

Thanks for clarifying Bep. Is there a particular reason why we can’t pull .WordCount in a shortcode but variables like .Title, .IsDraft, .Section, and .Params.categories are no problem? Or is this latter something that will be deprecated in future versions since shortcodes aren’t built for that?

7

To calculate the word count you need the content of the page. The content of the page includes shortcode(s).

You can read more about this problem here: