I appreciate this might be a little niche. However for the site I'm building it would be enormously helpful and there are plenty of other site genres out there which would benefit from this as well - essay sites, journalism sites, literary sites etc. 

A word count option in articles. 

When an article is posted the option to have a side bar appended to the layout with a word count showing, and even features such as "search by word count", could be really super useful in certain industries. 

I have something like this for topics:

Oh nice - thank you! Could it work for articles as well? 

 

I can make a custom one for you. Drop a message if you want to talk about it.

@Adriano Faria that summary could be a perfect home for this too:

 

 

I can add this. 👍