read-meter
Read Meter – Reading Time & Progress Bar
The Read Meter plugin displays the estimated reading time for blog posts along with a progress bar.
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Open evidence explorerProgress Bar is Cool; Read Time Broken: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputAfter update it started to underline some links: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputRead Meter settings not displayed with Hueman Theme: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputUnwanted Break after time forces “min” in next line: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputPlugin don’t show reading time correctly: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputReading Bar does’nt fill 100%: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputSetting Select Post Types not working: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputSingle post issue: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputREad meter always display 1m time reading every where: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputRead meter displays 1 minute on Divi builder posts: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Buyer: publishers, analysts, agencies, and data-heavy site owners · Wedge: verify progressbar data freshness, table rendering, chart accuracy, and export/report outputCompetitor Context
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Collected Signals
20 shown from 49 collectedThe user asks to place the reading progress bar below a sticky navigation bar, and support says that placement is not possible.
Evidence: it’s not possible to have the progress bar display under the sticky nav.The user wants a built-in way to hide the reading meter across WooCommerce pages, but support only offered custom CSS.
Evidence: Unfortunately, it’s not currently possible to hide the meter across all WooCommerce pages by default.The user requests a characters-per-minute option because word-based reading estimates do not work for Chinese or Japanese text.
Evidence: Words per minute doesn’t make sense in Chinese/Japanese because those doe not have a space between words.Reading Bar does’nt fill 100%: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: I’m currently building a website and have installed Read Meter, which is a perfect fit for my needs!Single post issue: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Single post issue Hello, Thank you for your help with this issue: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/small-issue-below-the-post-title/ My client now wants to place the reading time not below the title, but above the content on single posts and pages ONLY.A Read Meter user wanted custom centering and font size for the reading-time label on single posts and received CSS help.
Evidence: For the single posts ONLY, I’d like to center it and change the font size.Read Meter shows one-minute estimates in a homepage post loop because it lacks dynamic post ID handling in shortcodes.
Evidence: the posts being displayed are not static. Is it possible to use the post ID for whatever post is being shown in the loop?The user reported that the reading progress bar never reaches 100% even when scrolled to the bottom, but support could not reproduce it.
Evidence: it never reaches 100%, even when the user scrolls all the way to the bottomThe user wanted reading time and progress bars only on posts with a specific template and later solved it through settings changes.
Evidence: I solved the problem by doing the followingRead Meter settings not displayed with Hueman Theme: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Read Meter settings not displayed with Hueman Theme Hello, my settings for font size, margins, padding and colors for the Read Meter Plugin are not respected under Hueman Theme.Nice and intuitive: users praise reliable, value, which suggests what competitors already do well.
Evidence: Nice and intuitive Works out of the box !Read meter displays 1 minute on Divi builder posts: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Seems like the same problem here: https://wordpress.org/support/topic/read-meter-always-display-1m-time-reading-every-where/ If you take a look on the link the time doesn’t show on top now, but you’ll be able to find it through the inspector, because I have hidden it with css.REad meter always display 1m time reading every where: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: REad meter always display 1m time reading every where hello i use divi and your plugin always display 1 min in front, but in pagebuilder editor i have the good time can you help me please ?Formatting Error: users show bugs, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Formatting Error It seems like the plugin has a default unit suffix of “mins”.How to disable both “Read time” and progress bar for specific pages?: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: How to disable both “Read time” and progress bar for specific pages?Conflict with Salient Theme: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Conflict with Salient Theme having issues with progress bar.Plugin don’t show reading time correctly: users show bugs, compatibility, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Plugin don’t show reading time correctly Hello!Plugin not displaying read time for related post: users show compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Plugin not displaying read time for related post Hello Team, The plugin does not display the read time only in the related post section which is rendered by Astra theme whereas it displays on all other pages like blogs, archives and blog details pages on our website.Read time not showing on home page posts: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: Read time not showing on home page posts Hello, I am using divi theme and on home page blog list read time not showing, however it’s showing on category page or other place, just on home page it’s not showing.Special ID attribute in shortcode: users show bugs, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.
Evidence: We recently used it in one of our projects and found one simple thing missing, namely, the ability to specify the post ID in the shortcode.