Here's the other Movable Type plugin I mentioned a while back: if you like the idea of Adam Kalsey's WordCount plugin but sometimes post pictures with brief captions sometimes, or just want it to not count the words used for the excerpt when you don't write one yourself, try EntryContents.
The options it takes are:
word="1"- Display "294 words" or "274 more words".
no_generate="1"- With
words, never show "more words," only the real word count. (You can useno_generate="1"withMTEntryExcerptto make it not autogenerate an excerpt either.) paragraph="1"- Display a paragraph count. This looks at either the number of HTML
ptags in your entry, or the number of double-carriage-returns. link="1"- Show the number of
atags in your entry. image="1"- Show the number of
imgtags in your entry. glue="string"- The string with which to stick the different counts together.
So, for example, here I'm now using <$MTEntryContents word="1" link="1" image="1"$> in my RSS feeds. This makes strings like (125 more words, 2 links) for my directly previous entry about MTCatEntries 2.2.
