Nathan Shubert-Harbison

What I’m Currently Reading is a simple plugin to do one thing: tell the world what book you’re reading in the sidebar of your blog or website. The plugin gives you a widget that allows you to put in the title, author, and url for info of the book you’re reading, as well as customize the title of your widget and the default text if you’re not currently reading a book. There are several other plugins that allow you to keep a more detailed archive of your reading history, and if that’s what you’re looking for those plugins take care of you beautifully. This one is if you don’t need that kind of functionality, but would like to be able to quickly tell visitors what you’re reading.

Contributors: Nathan Shubert Harbison

What I’m Currently Reading is a simple plugin to do one thing: tell the world what book you’re reading in the sidebar of your blog or website.

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Welcome to TimeSpan
The plugin ships with default settings, but allows you to change everything from: the message shown for a post that will take less than one minute; the message shown for any post over 1 minute; and the words-per-minute used to calculate the reading time.
Setup
Once the plugin is activated, you have two options: you can include it in your theme files (handy for WordPress developers), or you can let us do all the heavy lifting with automagic setup.
Include TimeSpan in Your Theme Files
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<li>Head over to the TimeSpan menu under Settings</li>
<li>Fill out the options on that page</li>
<li>Place the ‘echo do_shortcode(‘[time-span]’)’ shortcode wherever you’d like the data to show up in your theme file (e.g. page-home.php).</li>
<li>Click the blue “Save Changes” button.</li>
</ol>
That’s it!
Automagic Setup
The Automagic Setup will automatically insert the calculated time to read at the top of each of your posts. Here’s how to do that:
<ol>
<li>Head over to the TimeSpan menu under Settings</li>
<li>Fill out the options on that page</li>
<li>Check the box at the bottom labeled “Automatically insert the time to read at the top of Posts”.</li>
<li>Click the blue “Save Changes” button.</li>
</ol>
That’s it!
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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.

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