woganmay

Wordbar creates a simple wordcounter / progress bar as a Widget on your WordPress blog.
The widget counts all the words in all the published posts in your Posts table. It then outputs either a progress bar, or a box with the total word count across your blog.
Useful for contests like NaNoWriMo, or just for showing off how much you’ve written and published.

WordBar

Wordbar creates a simple wordcounter / progress bar as a Widget on your Wordpress blog

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.

WordBar vs Reading Time WP