Wordpress Estimated Reading Time Plugin v2.0: Now with feed integration
Reading time: < 1 minute
I just committed an update to the Estimated Reading Time plugin I developed for wordpress back in February. This update solves the feed problem that Rick Klau pointed out (thanks Rick!) in that it also appends the reading time information to the feed content.
Callum Macdonald came up with the fix and sent it over to me yesterday (thanks Callum!). Gotta love the worldwide web where people who don’t even know each other can find each other and collaborate to make better software.
You can grab the updated version of the plugin at its page on wordpress.org any time. If you find any issues with it please let me know.
Eric, just discovered your blog. Such an awesome tip! I always wondered how Tim Ferriss put the little “read estimate” line on his posts. I thought he actually put it in there manually! hahaha
Just stumbled and submitted your site to Viralogy. Hope you get some great traffic from it.
- Jun
Jun Loayza
22 May 09 at 10:55 am
Thanks Jun! Glad you like the plugin and I hope you business is going well.
Eric Olson
26 May 09 at 2:20 pm
This is a sweet little thing. It’s just crying for a tiny little admin page to set some custom CSS… I’ll see what I can do… always the time issue… and it looks like I’d have to add a fair bit of structure (class, etc.) to do it right.
But I definitely learned something very cool: the minimal cost prepend to a wordpress post, and that’s pretty cool itself.
Dave Doolin
31 May 09 at 7:03 pm
I’m actually thinking of writing a post that mentions how adding the reading estimate will let visitors spend there time much more wisely. Instead of having a user read half way only to put off the 2nd part for later, then coming back only to reread (so as to remember), perhaps with this plugin installed they’ll say, “Oh, this is a long post, so I’ll set time aside to read it in one sitting” or “this is a short post, I don’t have to print it out”, thus decreasing the overall time reading (and wasting of electricity), making their usage much greener.
By the way, I’ve installed the plugin, but I can’t figure out how to remove the estimated time from my header…
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24 Jun 09 at 9:49 am
Hi,
Very nice idea. Unfortunately your plugin counts code of images and embedded objects (like flash, youtube etc.) So if I will put 15 images on my webpage then plugin show me 2 minutes estimated time. I think images etc. should be excluded.
Greetz
mareo
26 Jul 09 at 2:54 pm
Eric,
Excellent plugin. Thanks so much. I do have a comment/question. The plugin does not seem to discriminate between posts and pages. Is there a simple way to keep it from appearing on Pages? Thanks.
Gustavo
25 Aug 09 at 10:17 am
@Mareo Interesting point although it does take time to look at images. I will look into this.
@Gustavo I am not sure how to get the plugin to discriminate between pages and posts. I will look into it though.
Eric Olson
25 Aug 09 at 2:57 pm
@Gustavo, @Eric, check the “is_post()” and “is_page()” functions. Shouldn’t be too difficult to implement.
Sweet little plugin BTW. Really like it.
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19 Oct 09 at 11:37 am