The Read Meter plugin displays the estimated reading time for blog posts along with a progress bar.
People often skip reading posts with the fear of the time they’ll spend reading it. Are you losing readers too?
The Read Meter plugin displays the estimated reading time for blog posts along with a progress bar. It works great to give visitors a quick idea about the time needed to read a post and encourages them to go on till the end.
Usually, visitors try to scan the entire post at first glance and grasp as much as information possible from the post. Reading time specified in minutes motivates users to read the post.
A handy progress bar will show the reader’s position on the post. As the reader scrolls the page, the progress bar indicates the remaining part of the post. This lets readers know how far have they reached and how much more do they have to go on.
Try it out on a free dummy site
The plugin uses an advanced image time calculation technique. In case your post contains images, the plugin calculates the time to view those images as well. It adds 12 seconds for the first image, 11 seconds for the second image and so on till the 10th image. After that, it adds 3 seconds for each further image.
It works great to give visitors a quick idea about the time needed to read a post and encourages them to go on till the end.
Here are some key features of the plugin –
[read_meter]
, gives you the flexibility to add read time anywhere on the site.[read_meter id=47]
.That’s not all! Here are some more controls you get over Reading Time –
Specific controls for Progress Bar –
/wp-content/plugins/
directory, or install the plugin through the WordPress plugins screen directly.After installing and activating the plugin, settings can be found under Settings > Read Meter
Let’s assume, you have set Words Per Minute ( Settings > Read Meter > General Settings) to 275 and total words in your blog post are 1100. So the total number of words (1100) divided by Words per minute (275) will give you an estimated time of reading i.e. 4 minutes.
Yes! The plugin works with all CPTs. You can select Post Types from Settings > Read Meter > General Settings
Shortcode – [read_meter]
can be added to any page with a shortcode module/block. This will work with the Gutenberg editor or any page builder editor.
The Read Meter plugin works with all WordPress themes!
[read_meter]
shortcode eg: [read_meter id="47"]
to show reading time of that particular post/page irrespective of where the shortcode is added.[read_meter]
was not visible on individual post/page unless the post type was selected.