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:
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<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>
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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.

layerpoint

Let your readers know how much time the blog post will take for reading. This plugin creates an estimated reading time of your posts that is inserted above the content or by using a shortcode. Automatically updates the read time based on the updates the blog post recieves.
The plugin is completely customizable using the Dashboard Settings. You can activte or deactivate the plugin, style it with the default classes or add your own custom classes. You can also set an estimated number of words read per minute. You can additionally add extra content before and after the estimated reading time as per your needs.

LP Estimated Reading Time

Very Good

Displays an estimated reading time of your blog posts

Easy Reading Progress Bar vs LP Estimated Reading Time