It seems like the plugin has a default unit suffix of “mins”. This is incorrect, as it means “minute-seconds”. The proper unit symbol for the minute (or minutes) is simply “min”. Please update this in the plugin so that this error doesn’t cascade across all the websites that use your plugin.

Hello

As the title describes, is it possible to manually disable both the read time text and the progress bar for specific pages like About Us, Contact Page etc.

There should be an option in the page settings for this to give the plugin more flexibility and power for us who’s using it.

Besides that, i really like the plugin ??

Thanks!

having issues with progress bar. i deactivated theme and works. i have a secondary header thought that might be the issue but it still didn’t work when I removed that either. I’m sure something minor i just don’t know enough code.

https://themeforest.net/item/salient-responsive-multipurpose-theme/4363266

• This topic was modified 3 months ago by lbarron.

Hello! I use Elementor and Astra. The entry shows 1 minute reading but has over 3600 words. And I set the plugin for 275 per minute.

I appreciate your help.

Thank you!

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. Kindly assist with any solution to display it in the “Related Posts” section.

Thank you.

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. I have already selected this option under read meter setting.
I am looking forward to solve this.
Thank you

First of all, I want to express gratitude and appreciation for creating a pretty cool plugin. 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. So, we modified the code and are sending it to you to implement:

/** YCDEVS MODE - ADD ID ATTR
 * Function of the read_meter shortcode.
 *
 * @since 1.0.0
 * @return shortcode display value.
 */
public function read_meter_shortcode($atts) {

	$atts = shortcode_atts( array(
		'id' => '',
	), $atts, 'read_meter' );

	$bsf_rt_post = '';

	if(isset($atts['id']) && !empty($atts['id'])){

		$bsf_rt_post = get_post($atts['id'])->ID;

	} else {

		$bsf_rt_post = get_the_ID($atts['id']);

	}

	$this->bsf_rt_calculate_reading_time( $bsf_rt_post, $this->bsf_rt_options );

	$label              = $this->bsf_rt_options['bsf_rt_reading_time_label'];
	$postfix            = $this->bsf_rt_options['bsf_rt_reading_time_postfix_label'];

	$shortcode_output = '<span class="bsf-rt-reading-time"><span class="bsf-rt-display-label" prefix="' . $label . '">
	</span> <span class="bsf-rt-display-time" reading_time="' . $this->reading_time . '"></span> 
	<span class="bsf-rt-display-postfix" postfix="' . $postfix . '"></span></span>';

	return $shortcode_output;
}

I believe this additional feature will be useful not only to us but also to a greater number of users ??

• This topic was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by ycdevs.
• This topic was modified 7 months, 1 week ago by ycdevs.

Dear developers,

After I updated this plugin my page changed. Some links on the main page became underlined! After some investigations I figured out that the reason is this plugin. It is connected with IDs ‘bsf_rt_marker’ somehow.

There is no such issue with 1.06 version. Temporary downgraded.

Please advice what can I do to fix it

• This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by parashutist.
• This topic was modified 8 months, 1 week ago by parashutist.

Hi,

I have a similar issue mentioned here – https://www.ads-software.com/support/topic/add-option-to-hide-progress-bar-on-unselected-post-types/

Even if only the post is selected in the Select Post Types setting, the wrapper (bsf_rt_marker) appears on every post type.

How can I display the progress bar on mobile too?

Hi, I use the Twent Twenty-Three theme.

Many images inside posts are centered. But when this plugin is activated, they all appear on the left.

Tried to investigate the CSS, but haven’t found the culprit so far…

Had to disable the plugin for now…

Sincerely
DJM

Hello,

On my website I’m not to able to see on frontend the progress bar on navbar.

How can i fix it? In article template i’m using <?php echo do_shortcode(‘[read_meter]’); ?> to display the reading time but i can’t see any progress bar on top

Hi,

How can I add the reading time on the elementor loop? Trying to pull out a list of posts but also wanted to have the reading time as a meta info.

Thanks

Progress bar and Read time not working For Avada Theme and avada page builder

https://themeforest.net/item/avada-responsive-multipurpose-theme/2833226

I prefer the progress bar to appear on the top of the page, but this doesn’t work with my sticky nav set on top of the page. I have tried increasing the width of the progress bar, but this causes the nav bar to be unclickable until I scroll down the page.

Hi, why do I all of a sudden have a break between the time and the Reading Postfix? It looks like that:
Lesezeit 2
min

It should look like that:
Lesezeit 2 min

It already worked quite a while…

Can it be made so that the progress bar only shows on the post types which are selected in the general settings tab? I have only selected posts but it appears on all my pages including my homepage too which looks bad.

Hi,
We have a website where we have WPML with English and Danish as languages.
But it doesn’t seem like we can translate “Reading Time Prefix” and “Reading Time Postfix”

Is it something that you can make possible to translate? as we need to be able to display “Reading Time” and “Minutes” in English and Danish

How could insert a font icon before reading time prefix

Have discovered an unclosed <style> tag in class-bsfrt-readtime.php (Line 958) which was wrapping additional items inside the header.

I’ve added the close </style> tag as a temporary fix but hoping the issue is resolved in a future update.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 10 months ago by camwebfor.

The reading time appears in my excerpts on category pages. It’s being inserted at the very beginning. This seems like an error.

I was wondering if it’s possible to have the reading time appear in the post meta.

Example: “Date Published – Author – Reading Time”

I would like to see this on the archives and the single post.

My theme is GeneratePress Premium.

• This topic was modified 1 year, 11 months ago by Glen Huff.

Hello,
Setting to
Show Estimated Read Time On: Single post and homepage, it does not appeared on single post and appeared incorrectly on related posts on postinfo area.
Do you know how can i solve this?
Thanks

Hi,

First of all, thanks for this plugin.

I’m using this plugin to show reading time in posts.

But showing codes in single post page like :
<span class=”bsf-rt-display-label” prefix=”Reading Time”></span>
<span class=”bsf-rt-display-time” reading_time=”1″></span>
<span class=”bsf-rt-display-postfix” postfix=”mins”></span>

And also bsfrt-frontend-css.css file have below statements,
.bsf-rt-display-label:after {
content: attr(prefix);
}

.bsf-rt-display-time:after {
content: attr(reading_time);
}

.bsf-rt-display-postfix:after {
content: attr(postfix);
}.

Any ideas how to solve this issue? Please help to fix this issue as soon as possible.

Thank you & regards,
Helani

Hi, I tried changing few styles like colour and text size; however, it’s not reflecting in front-end.

Moreover, the short code is not working at all. Kindly provide solution.

I am using Astra theme. Thanks.

I setup Read time plugin fully.
Now I See Double Read time One is before title and
another is after title

I want to remove read time before title

Hi,

I was wondering if there is a way to get the reading time through a php function that uses the post ID (not through echo shortcode).

Best,

Wouter

Hello,

I wanted to know if the plugin is compatible for wordpress multisites. Will the configuration be taken into account on all the sub-sites that make up the multisite or will it have to be installed and configured on each instance?

Thanks in advance for your answer

hey guys!

thank you for this cool plugin – it works perfectly fine on one of my websites but on my 2nd website the progress bar doesn’t get displayed unfortunately. I hope you can help me fixing that issue.

thank you in advance!

greetings
Diana

Is there any way to move it to the right of the category metadata in a post instead of below or above it?

I’m using the Divi theme’s blog module twice on a page. The Read Meter shows up in the first instance of the blog module, but not the second.