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Display the estimated read time of a post with a shortcode. This code snippet produces a shortcode to display the estimated reading time for a post. It strips HTML tags, counts the words, and divides by 200 (words per minute) to get the reading time in minutes.

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Voted: 5 by 5 user(s)

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1. Activate your code snippet. 2. In your posts or pages, add [read-time] where you want the reading time to be displayed. OR To display this in a loop grid, you can call do_shortcode('[read-time]') in your theme's template files, where you list your posts. *Test this on a staging environment before deploying it on your live site.

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Last modified:

02/02/2024

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Display Estimated Read Time For Blog Posts

 
                    
 1function nestwise_calculate_reading_time( $content ) {
 2    $word_count = str_word_count( strip_tags( $content ) );
 3    $reading_time = ceil( $word_count / 200 );
 4    return $reading_time;
 5}
 6 
 7function nestwise_reading_time_shortcode() {
 8    global $post;
 9    $reading_time = nestwise_calculate_reading_time( $post->post_content );
10    return '<span class="reading-time">Read Time: ' . $reading_time . ' minute(s)</span>';
11}
12 
13add_shortcode( 'read-time', 'nestwise_reading_time_shortcode' );

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    A.R.

    6 months ago

    Nice :-)

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