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timespan

TimeSpan

TimeSpan is a simple, easy to set-up WordPress plugin that automagically calculates the approximate length of time it will take to read a blog post.

blog length post reading time
24.2 Open evidence Open API Open on WordPress.org
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73.8% of this page's analysis has direct source links.

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Download Momentum

180 days
63 116 -45.7% 389

Source Evidence

Open evidence explorer
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.84
Wrong math?

Wrong math?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
If so, any idea why the reading time comes to less than 1 minute?
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.78
Post won't render

Post won't render: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Post won't render Putting this snippet into the php causes the page to go blank <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[time-span]’)?> it only works when click the ‘Automatically Inject TimeSpan Code’ option.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.73
greater than 1 minute, less than 2 minutes issue

greater than 1 minute, less than 2 minutes issue: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
greater than 1 minute, less than 2 minutes issue If the post takes ‘more than one minute to read, but less than two minutes’ the text: “greater than 1 minutes” (with an ‘s’) is displayed.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
Article won't be displayed when using shortcode

Article won't be displayed when using shortcode: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
If I check the “Automatically Inject TimeSpan Code” in the backend everything works great.
mixed support · medium severity · relevance 0.72
TimeSpan doesn't work in Cyrillic posts

TimeSpan doesn't work in Cyrillic posts: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
TimeSpan doesn't work in Cyrillic posts Is it possible to make the plugin work with posts written in Cyrillic?
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.56
It works!

It works!: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
It works!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.5
Great but missing important feature of viewable on archives

Great but missing important feature of viewable on archives: users show missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Great but missing important feature of viewable on archives This plugin works well and is made well with multiple fun little features that others didn’t have.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Beautiful plugin!

Beautiful plugin!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Beautiful plugin! Very nice effective way to let the audience know what they are getting themselves into. Very nice effective way to let the audience know what they are getting themselves into.
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Works like a charm!

Works like a charm!: users praise easy, reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Works like a charm!
praise review · medium severity · relevance 0.38
Exactly what I wanted!

Exactly what I wanted!: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
Hold card needs detail WordPress operations workflow Evidence linked to opportunity
Works perfectly well.

Competitor Context

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All In One Favicon weak incumbent · intel 80.2 · weakness 70.8
weak incumbent
stale update history 19 collected complaint signal(s) compatibility support 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: agencies, maintenance teams, and client-site operators · Wedge: audit admin changes, role drift, client handoffs, and unsafe settings exposure
source 1 source 2
WP Image Borders praise owner · intel 74.6 · weakness 65.3
praise owner
stale update history 23 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check posts publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Google SEO Pressor for Rich snippets praise owner · intel 72.2 · weakness 61.1
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating support missing feature 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: marketing teams, agencies, publishers, and ecommerce operators · Wedge: audit Facebook display rules, lead capture, trust signals, and campaign attribution
source 1 source 2
Storefront Blog Excerpts praise owner · intel 70.5 · weakness 59.8
praise owner
stale update history 7 collected complaint signal(s) support bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: store owners and WooCommerce agencies · Wedge: monitor storefront failures, handoffs, and revenue-impacting exceptions
source 1 source 2
Book Review praise owner · intel 67.7 · weakness 54.0
praise owner
stale update history 5 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature bugs 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: affiliate marketers, ecommerce operators, and partner-program managers · Wedge: verify affiliate tracking, commission handoffs, payout evidence, and partner disputes
source 1 source 2
Blog-in-Blog praise owner · intel 65.0 · weakness 48.2
praise owner
16 collected complaint signal(s) missing feature compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: publishers, content teams, and agencies · Wedge: check categories publishing, media, metadata, and editorial handoffs before content goes live
source 1 source 2
Blog Time praise owner · intel 63.8 · weakness 50.7
praise owner
stale update history below-average rating missing feature reliable 2 source links Investigate Pain Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners, agencies, and maintenance teams · Wedge: monitor server health, updates, cache state, cron jobs, and maintenance exceptions
source 1 source 2
SiteOrigin Widgets Bundle praise owner · intel 58.5 · weakness 34.2
praise owner
1 collected complaint signal(s) bugs compatibility 2 source links Proof Blocked Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site builders and agencies · Wedge: detect slider layout regressions, widget breakage, and client-visible update issues
source 1 source 2

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Collected Signals

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praise Add to home page support · 2016-05-07T20:15:18+00:00 · medium severity · post

Add to home page: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: https://wordpress.org/plugins/timespan/ How do I can add it to the homepage, not only in the post?
value content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise Great but missing important feature of viewable on archives (4 stars) review · 2015-12-30T07:36:27+00:00 · medium severity · post

Great but missing important feature of viewable on archives: users show missing feature, migration pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Great but missing important feature of viewable on archives This plugin works well and is made well with multiple fun little features that others didn’t have.
missing feature migration reliable quality content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise Timespan outside of the loop support · 2015-10-20T13:33:07+00:00 · medium severity · post

Timespan outside of the loop: users praise value, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Timespan outside of the loop How can I use the plugin outside of the loop?
value content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise Greater Than 1 Minute Less Than 2 Minutes Postfix problem support · 2015-08-13T15:14:42+00:00 · medium severity · post

Greater Than 1 Minute Less Than 2 Minutes Postfix problem: users praise value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Greater Than 1 Minute Less Than 2 Minutes Postfix problem For some reason I cannot add the postfix in this field.
value quality content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise It works! (5 stars) review · 2015-07-20T03:52:28+00:00 · medium severity · post

It works!: users show compatibility, missing feature, setup pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: It works!
compatibility missing feature setup reliable content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
mixed TimeSpan doesn't work in Cyrillic posts support · 2015-04-06T15:06:20+00:00 · medium severity · post

TimeSpan doesn't work in Cyrillic posts: users show missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: TimeSpan doesn't work in Cyrillic posts Is it possible to make the plugin work with posts written in Cyrillic?
missing feature support value content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
mixed greater than 1 minute, less than 2 minutes issue support · 2015-03-17T16:54:16+00:00 · medium severity · post

greater than 1 minute, less than 2 minutes issue: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: greater than 1 minute, less than 2 minutes issue If the post takes ‘more than one minute to read, but less than two minutes’ the text: “greater than 1 minutes” (with an ‘s’) is displayed.
bugs compatibility missing feature value content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise Exactly what I wanted! (5 stars) review · 2015-03-14T18:14:26+00:00 · medium severity · post

Exactly what I wanted!: users praise reliable, value, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works perfectly well.
reliable value quality content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
mixed Post won't render support · 2015-02-12T10:34:17+00:00 · medium severity · post

Post won't render: users show compatibility, missing feature, support pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Post won't render Putting this snippet into the php causes the page to go blank <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[time-span]’)?> it only works when click the ‘Automatically Inject TimeSpan Code’ option.
compatibility missing feature support reliable content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
mixed Wrong math? support · 2015-01-08T05:24:27+00:00 · medium severity · post

Wrong math?: users show bugs, compatibility, missing feature pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: If so, any idea why the reading time comes to less than 1 minute?
bugs compatibility missing feature support content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
mixed Bug on RSS support · 2014-11-07T13:39:16+00:00 · low severity · post

Bug on RSS: users show bugs pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: Bug on RSS Hi, Thank you for your plugin ,but there is a bug on the rss content.
bugs value quality content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
mixed Article won't be displayed when using shortcode support · 2014-10-16T14:14:31+00:00 · medium severity · post

Article won't be displayed when using shortcode: users show bugs, compatibility pain that may indicate a product gap.

Evidence: If I check the “Automatically Inject TimeSpan Code” in the backend everything works great.
bugs compatibility reliable value content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise Beautiful plugin! (5 stars) review · 2014-10-06T20:41:35+00:00 · medium severity · post

Beautiful plugin!: praise conversation with limited structured signal.

Evidence: Beautiful plugin! Very nice effective way to let the audience know what they are getting themselves into. Very nice effective way to let the audience know what they are getting themselves into.
content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise Works like a charm! (5 stars) review · 2014-10-06T16:07:06+00:00 · medium severity · post

Works like a charm!: users praise easy, reliable, quality, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Works like a charm!
easy reliable quality content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
source plugin
praise Simple & effective (5 stars) review · 2014-09-30T21:07:27+00:00 · medium severity · post

Simple & effective: users praise easy, reliable, which suggests what competitors already do well.

Evidence: Simple & effective Simple & effective, works like a charm.
easy reliable content publishing operations Hold card needs detail Evidence linked to opportunity
Buyer: site owners and agencies · Wedge: detect failures around time before they cost the buyer time, revenue, or trust
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