Mushlih Almubarak

Easy Reading Progress Bar adds a sleek, customizable progress bar to your single post pages, providing readers with a visual indicator of their progress as they scroll through an article. It’s designed to be feather-light, incredibly fast, and compatible with the vast majority of WordPress themes, including modern Block Themes and popular classic themes.
Key Features:
<ul>
<li>Extremely Lightweight: No extra CSS or JavaScript files loaded. All code is inlined and optimized for performance.</li>
<li>Highly Compatible: Works seamlessly with many themes.</li>
<li>Customizable: Easily change the progress bar’s color and position (top or bottom of the page) from a simple settings page.</li>
<li>Dependency-Free: The frontend script does not rely on jQuery, ensuring it won’t conflict with other plugins or slow down your site.</li>
<li>Developer Friendly: Includes a filter (<code>erpb_bar_height</code>) to programmatically change the bar’s height.</li>
</ul>
This plugin was created with ❤️ by <a href="https://github.com/mushlih-almubarak" rel="nofollow ugc">Mushlih Almubarak</a> from Indonesia.

Easy Reading Progress Bar

A simple, lightweight, and highly compatible reading progress bar for your WordPress posts.

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The Estimated Reading Time Content plugin automatically calculates and displays the estimated time required to read your posts and pages. It enhances user experience by informing readers about the content length, encouraging engagement and readability.
Features:
<ul>
<li>Automatically displays reading time at the top or bottom of posts and pages.</li>
<li>Customizable words per minute for accurate reading time calculation.</li>
<li>Allows customization of the reading time text, font size, font color, and background color.</li>
<li>Provides a shortcode for inserting reading time in specific locations.</li>
<li>Includes a widget for displaying reading time in sidebars.</li>
<li>Admin settings page for easy configuration.</li>
</ul>
Key Benefits:
<ul>
<li>Improves user engagement by setting reading expectations.</li>
<li>Enhances content readability and planning.</li>
<li>Easy to customize to match your site’s design.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Usage</h3>
Once activated, the plugin will automatically display the reading time on all posts and pages based on your settings.
Shortcode:
You can also manually insert the reading time using the shortcode <code>[ertc_reading_time]</code> within your post or page content.
Examples:
<ul>
<li>
To display the reading time within the content:
<pre><code> This is the content of your post. [ertc_reading_time] ``
</code></pre>
</li>
<li>
To display the reading time for a specific post or page by ID:
<pre><code> [ertc_reading_time id="123"] ``
</code></pre>
</li>
</ul>
Widget:
Add the Estimated Reading Time widget to your sidebar or any widget area to display the reading time.

Estimated Reading Time Content

Adds a reading time block to posts and pages, with customizable settings and widget support.

Easy Reading Progress Bar vs Estimated Reading Time Content