jarednova

lggorman

We created Stream Manager with news editors in mind. Admins wanted the latest headlines to show up on the front page automatically, but didn’t want to give up the flexibility of pinning a major story in a featured spot or pushing a smaller item down below the fold.
Stream Manager provides a simple interface for curating feeds of new posts from the WordPress Admin. New posts show up automatically at the top of a stream, but content can easily be added, removed, or repositioned on the page via the stream editor. Admins also have the option of pinning a post, which will lock it in its current position regardless of new content.
Stream Manager is designed to work with Twig templating plugin <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/timber-library/" rel="ugc">Timber</a>, as detailed in the installation instructions. Check out the <a href="http://upstatement.com/timber/" rel="nofollow ugc">Timber project page</a> for more info.
<h4>Links</h4>
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<li><a href="http://github.com/Upstatement/stream-manager" rel="nofollow ugc">Github repo</a> (includes user guide)</li>
<li><a href="https://vimeo.com/160133857/025e8af0ae" rel="nofollow ugc">Walkthough Screencast</a></li>
<li><a href="https://upstatement.github.io/stream-manager/" rel="nofollow ugc">Developer docs</a></li>
<li><a href="http://jarednova.github.io/timber/" rel="nofollow ugc">Timber docs</a></li>
</ul>

Stream Manager

Easily curate streams of recent posts.  Pin, remove, or add posts to a stream via a drag and drop interface.

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.

Stream Manager vs Reading Time WP