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.

Think201

Anurag Rath

Vivek Pandey

Let your readers know how much time the blog post will take for reading. Mins To Read plugin calculates the read time of a blog post based on words present in it.
Automatically updates the read time based on the updates the blog post/article recieves.This plugin takes care of calculation of read time of all your existing blog posts in a single click. Apart from this, users can configure reading speed for their posts. Default positions available with custom class addition support for the same. Users can position the mins to read feature by functional calls in theme file.
<h4>Salient Features</h4>
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<li>Calculate read time based on number of words in article/post.</li>
<li>Calculate read time for existing posts in a single click</li>
<li>Set read speed for articles.</li>
<li>Read time will be updated according to the update of the post.</li>
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Shortcode Available [mtr_print] to be added to theme files or content
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If you have any particular idea on how the plugin should work, raise a ticket in support section.
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<li>Like the plugin or want features? Tweet to us <a href="https://twitter.com/think201" rel="nofollow ugc">@think201</a></li>
<li>Also you can read more about the plugin & its development at <a href="https://github.com/Think201/wordpress-plugin-mins-to-read" rel="nofollow ugc">Think201 Labs</a></li>
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<h4>Plugin Support</h4>
If you have a question or problem with the Mins To Read plugin, post it on the support forum and we will help you.
You can get in touch with us at <a href="https://think201.com/" rel="nofollow ugc">Think201 Labs</a>
<h4>Requirements</h4>
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<li>WordPress 3.5.2 or greater</li>
<li>PHP 5.2.6 or greater (5.3 recommended, with scandir)</li>
<li>MySQL 4.1.2 or greater (5.x recommended)</li>
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Easy Reading Progress Bar vs Mins To Read