by yingles 4.8 (20 reviews)

Reading Time WP

Name: Reading Time WP
Rating: 4.8 (20 reviews)
Author: yingles

Reading Time WP creates an estimated reading time of your posts that is inserted above the content or by using a shortcode.

Reading Time WP ranks #1,100 among WordPress.org plugins with 30,000+ active installations, a 4.8/5 rating from 20 reviews, and was last updated Nov 17, 2024. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 6.7 (Current: 7.0.2)

v2.0.17 Current Version v2.0.17

Updated 1 year ago Last Update on 17 Nov, 2024

Refreshed 12 hours ago Last Refreshed on

Top 5% by installs Downloads -21.2% this week No update in over a year

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Review 4.8 out of 5

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Keyword	Position	Change	Type	Updated
estimated time	4	—	Tag	1 day ago
reading time	5	—	Tag	1 day ago
word count	22	—	Tag	1 day ago
time	104	—	Tag	1 day ago

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Plugin Details

Version: 2.0.17
Last Updated: Nov 17, 2024
Requires WP: 3.0.1+
Tested Up To: 6.7
PHP Version: N/A
Author: yingles

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Reviews: 20
Support Threads: 0
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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and bloggers who want to show readers how long a post will take to read. It solves the problem of manually calculating and displaying reading time by automatically inserting an estimate above post content or via a shortcode.

Automatic reading time insertion
Shortcode support
Customizable label text
Customizable postfix text
Singular postfix option
Toggle display on/off
Dashboard settings menu

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about Reading Time WP

On initial installation your reading time should be showing where the_content is called in your template. If it is not, navigate to the Reading Time WP settings menu in the WP Dashboard Settings menu and make sure the "Insert Reading Time before content" option is checked.

Just navigate to the Reading Time WP settings page and select which post types you want your Reading Times to display on. Reading Time WP defaults to posts and pages.

Easy, turn off the "Insert Reading Time before content" option form the Reading Time settings within your WP Dashboard's settings. Then use the Reading Time WP shortcode [rt_reading_time label="Reading Time:" postfix="minutes"]. Best of all the label and postfix parameters are optional.

Still easy, but you'll need to use WordPress' built in do_shortcode function. Simply place <?php echo do_shortcode('[rt_reading_time label="Reading Time:" postfix="minutes"]'); ?> into your theme wherever you please.

Just edit the Reading time label and Reading time postfix fields in the Reading Time WP Settings. The label appears before the time and the postfix after. Feel free to leave either blank to not use that field.

Yes! Reading Time WP calculates images based on Medium's article on the topic here: https://blog.medium.com/read-time-and-you-bc2048ab620c. So for the first image add 12 seconds, second image add 11, ..., for image 10+ add 3 seconds each.

Drop the code from this Gist in your functions.php. https://gist.github.com/jasonyingling/ad2832bc1768d1fbb63341aef072908b

Drop the code from this Gist in your functions.php https://gist.github.com/jasonyingling/5917dc97b302ca37abce7ceb93a7f4b8

Just hook into the rtwp_filter_wordcount filter and increment the word count the reading time is based on.

Use the optional page_id attribute on the shortcode. e.g. [rt_reading_time label="Reading Time:" postfix="minutes" postfix_singular="minute" post_id="123"]

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