The plugin ships with default settings, but allows you to change everything from the message shown for 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..
Once the plugin is activated, you have two options you can include it in your theme files, or you can let us do all the heavy lifting with automagic setup..
The Automagic Setup will insert the time to read at the top of each of your posts.
Upload the folder to the wp-content plugins directory.
Activate the TimeSpan plugin through 'Plugins WordPress.
We grab the word count of the post, provided by WordPress, and divide that by average words per minute.
The plugin defaults to 250wpm, which we got from this Wikipedia entry on reading rate and reading for comprehension...
Just target the.timespan class to target the type, and the.ts-time class to target & style the numeral itself...
I wanted to use it except it's missing the ability to show the data on archive pages such homepage or category feed.
Browse the code, check out SVN repository, or subscribe to the development log by RSS...
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