Connor Bryant

<p>Focus Mode adds a distraction-free reading experience to your WordPress posts and pages. When enabled, it hides elements like the site header to let users concentrate on the content. An estimated reading time is also displayed at the top of each post or page to inform users how long it will take to read.</p>
<p>This plugin is lightweight and designed for accessibility and readability. Ideal for blogs, long-form content, and educational sites.</p>


Focus Mode – Reading Experience Optimizer

Adds distraction-free reading mode and read time estimate to WordPress posts and pages.

Mehul Gohil

<p><strong>WP Distraction Free View</strong> adds a clean frontend Reader Mode to WordPress, helping visitors focus on your content without sidebars, widgets, navigation, and visual clutter.</p>
<p>WordPress core already includes distraction-free writing tools for the admin editor. This plugin is for the frontend visitor reading experience.</p>
<p>Use it to offer focused reading for posts, pages, and selected public custom post types. Visitors can open content in a polished Reader Mode overlay, use the Reader settings control in the modal header to adjust font size, switch between light/dark/sepia themes, choose a comfortable content width, print the reader view, or use browser fullscreen.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ol>
<li>Frontend Reader Mode for posts, pages, and selected public custom post types.</li>
<li>Clean reading column with comfortable typography, spacing, and width.</li>
<li>Reader Mode Toggle block for posts, pages, custom post types, and Query Loop templates.</li>
<li>Shortcode support with <code>[wpdfv]</code>.</li>
<li>Optional automatic toggle placement before content, after content, or as a floating button.</li>
<li>URL activation with <code>?reader-mode=1</code>.</li>
<li>Visitor preferences for font size, theme, and content width saved in localStorage only.</li>
<li>Optional reading progress indicator.</li>
<li>Optional estimated reading time.</li>
<li>Block-based Reader Mode templates for full site editing themes.</li>
<li>WordPress-components settings screen.</li>
<li>Lightweight frontend assets with no external tracking, telemetry, or third-party libraries.</li>
</ol>
<h4>Settings Overview</h4>
<p>Go to <strong>Settings > Reader Mode</strong> to configure:</p>
<p>The settings screen is organized into <strong>About</strong>, <strong>Configure</strong>, and <strong>More Plugins</strong> tabs. Reader Mode configuration lives under <strong>Configure</strong>.</p>
<ul>
<li>Enable Reader Mode for selected public post types.</li>
<li>Toggle placement: manual only, before content, after content, or floating.</li>
<li>Reading progress.</li>
<li>Estimated reading time.</li>
<li>Reader preference controls.</li>
<li>Default reader theme: light, dark, or sepia.</li>
<li>Default content width: narrow, default, or wide.</li>
<li>Default font size: small, default, or large.</li>
<li>Custom toggle label.</li>
<li>Custom exit label.</li>
<li>Reader template.</li>
</ul>
<p>Automatic toggle insertion is disabled for new installs. Existing installs keep their previous automatic insertion behavior during upgrade unless it was already disabled.</p>
<h4>Usage</h4>
<p>Use the Reader Mode Toggle block in posts, pages, public custom post types, single templates, and Query Loop templates.</p>
<p>Use the shortcode:</p>
<pre><code>[wpdfv]
</code></pre>
<p>Reader Mode can also open from the URL on enabled single content:</p>
<pre><code>https://example.com/my-post/?reader-mode=1
</code></pre>
<h4>Template Customization</h4>
<p>The Reader Mode content is rendered through block-based templates. The plugin registers a default Reader Mode layout and a <code>WP Distraction Free View</code> pattern category for block themes.</p>
<p>Themes and site-specific code can add templates with the <code>wpdfv_modal_templates</code> filter.</p>


WP Distraction Free View

Adds frontend Reader Mode so visitors can focus on posts, pages, and selected public post types.

Focus Mode – Reading Experience Optimizer vs WP Distraction Free View