Bill Erickson

Warning This plugin is no longer supported, and does not always work with the Gutenberg block editor.
I recommend using <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/change-last-modified-date/" rel="ugc">Change Last Modified Date</a> instead.
<h4>Summary</h4>
Prevent the modified date from changing when making minor changes to your content.
This plugin adds a checkbox to the Publish box, “Don’t update the modified date”. When checked, saving your post does not update the post modified date.
Minor changes like adding tags or fixing typos won’t bump the modified date.
This plugin will maintain the previous modified date. It does not let you specify a custom modified date.
When you’re ready to publish a major content change, you can uncheck this setting before saving the post.
<h4>Customization</h4>
Your theme will need to use <code>get_the_modified_date()</code> to display the modified date.
This plugin only applies to the <code>post</code> post type by default. You can customize which post types it appears on using the <code>limit_modified_date_post_types</code> filter.
<pre><code>add_filter( 'limit_modified_date_post_types', function( $post_types ) {
 $post_types[] = 'page';
 return $post_types;
});
</code></pre>

Limit Modified Date

Prevent the "modified date" from changing when making minor changes to your content.

Jason Yingling

bonaparte

Jeremy Varnham

WP Reading Time let’s you easily add an estimated reading time to your WordPress posts. Activating the plugin will automatically add the reading time to the beginning of your post’s content. This can be deactivated in the Reading Time settings which can be accessed from your Dashboard’s Settings menu. You can also edit the label and postfix from this menu.
If you’d prefer more control over where you add your reading time you can use the the [rt_reading_time] shortcode to insert the time into a post. This shortcode also excepts values for label and postfix. These are optional. Ex. [rt_reading_time label=”Reading Time:” postfix=”minutes” postfix_singular=”minute”].

Reading Time WP

This is awesome

Easy to setup and get shortcode added. Done in minutes

Just what I needed

Reading Time WP creates an estimated reading time of your posts that is inserted above the content or by using a shortcode.

Limit Modified Date vs Reading Time WP