Comments on: Wordpress Estimated Reading Time Plugin v2.0: Now with feed integration

By: Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend

Dave Doolin | Website In A Weekend — Mon, 19 Oct 2009 16:37:45 +0000

@Gustavo, @Eric, check the “is_post()” and “is_page()” functions. Shouldn’t be too difficult to implement.

Sweet little plugin BTW. Really like it.

By: Eric Olson

Eric Olson — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 19:57:41 +0000

@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.

By: Gustavo

Gustavo — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:17:57 +0000

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.

By: mareo

mareo — Sun, 26 Jul 2009 19:54:50 +0000

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

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By: Ruby Pilar

Ruby Pilar — Fri, 05 Jun 2009 07:41:34 +0000

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…

By: Dave Doolin

Dave Doolin — Mon, 01 Jun 2009 00:03:02 +0000

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.

By: Eric Olson

Eric Olson — Tue, 26 May 2009 19:20:54 +0000

Thanks Jun! Glad you like the plugin and I hope you business is going well.

By: Jun Loayza

Jun Loayza — Fri, 22 May 2009 15:55:15 +0000

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