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⏰ How to Display Estimated Post Reading Time in Your WordPress Posts For Free_ ⌛️
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Oct 15, 2023
In this video, you'll learn how to add a valuable feature to your WordPress posts for free – displaying the estimated reading time. Discover a step-by-step guide on how to implement this user-friendly tool to help your readers gauge the time commitment for each article. Enhance your website's user experience and engagement by providing this insightful and time-saving feature. ⌛️📖
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It's up guys, here's Claudio from VisualMoto WordPress themes and in today's video
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going to learn how to add a reading time or a post reading progress bar into your WordPress posts
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pages or custom post types that you want, okay? And all for free in a simple, fast and effective method
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So let's get this started. Very first thing to do is navigate your WordPress dashboard, review the left side bar of menus
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and hover a mouse over plugins. But before we can keep it going, let me explain why you should apply this, okay
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Imagine that you create a site. The first thing you want when you create a site is get more visitors to your site
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However, if you write content like a blogger, you want that the persons spend more and more
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more time reading your content. So it's most like more time that persons spend on our site, more time that persons will
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take to remember your brand, your words, your identity, so your content is matter
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So let's go to WordPress dashboard, give the left side bar of menus over a mouse over plugins
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and click on add new. There is a couple of big sites that also use the post time because they value the readers times and it helps So if you see on Medium for example a very popular blogging platform content platform
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you're going to be able to see their reading time. So right here, have you the upper right corner of her screen next to keyword into search
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plugins, we're going to type read matter. And this is the guide that are going to be installing
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matter reading time and progress bar click on install now click into the
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activate button this is gonna head direct you to the plugins list at least
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where you can see all for the current installed the plugins on your site nothing to do right here but once again review the left side bar of menus on our WordPress
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dashboard over a mouse over settings and click on read matter okay there is a new
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button on to this sub menu as soon as you activate the plugin and this is gonna
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redirect you to this page the read matter general settings first of all select post types you
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can select where the you want that the reading time going to be displayed so normally it
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comes to posts but you can apply into any post types that you want then words per minute
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imagine that a person that read our site not read that fast so it 250 words per minute it so it good it a normal time include comments check this box to include comments text into reading time not not at all include image check this to include your
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post image to reading time this is up to you okay I normally do not mark this option
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but it's up to you after this click on safe change after you can move to the reading time
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tab and show estimated reading time on single post home blog page and archive page it's up to you now okay so you can select any kind of parts you want i recommend that only show this into the single post but it's up to you
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reading time position above content above the post title below the post title or none reading time prefix you can change the language the do some translation
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or change the text right here if you prefer okay reading time it perfects minutes okay so
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up to you as well font size you can increase the font size if you prefer okay the margin
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and the padding okay background color and text color after this clicking to the save
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change we can also apply a progress bar if you select the options right here to display but we will not use the progress bar now now let find out a post of our blog and as you can see here is the reading time before the content okay
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we can customize this reading time in order to make it better okay for example changing the colors
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the positions but this is up to you and your blog design okay and it is i hope you guys enjoy this
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All the best. Thank you