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Blog Post - Read Time

This is a drop-in widget which will display a read time calculation for blog posts.

Simply visit the blog, edit the theme and drop in the Blog Post - Read Time widget. Publish and voila!

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Michael Kelley over 3 years ago in reply to Oliver Beirne +3

It's a fuzzy number derived from reading a few sources. In particular: https://blog.medium.com/read-time-and-you-bc2048ab620c https://martech.org/estimated-reading-times-increase-engagement/ https://infusion…
Oliver Beirne over 3 years ago +1

Daft question, but would this also work in v11.1?
Grant Pankonien over 3 years ago in reply to Oliver Beirne +1

Confirmed to work on my 11.1 sandbox site. I'll update the versions here. cc: Marisa

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Oliver Beirne over 3 years ago

For when I get asked, how is the read time for this widget calculated please?
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Michael Kelley over 3 years ago in reply to Oliver Beirne
It's a fuzzy number derived from reading a few sources.

In particular:

https://blog.medium.com/read-time-and-you-bc2048ab620c
https://martech.org/estimated-reading-times-increase-engagement/
https://infusion.media/content-marketing/how-to-calculate-reading-time/

The general consensus from my, admittedly brief, research was somewhere in the neighborhood of 200 wpm. That's the value encoded into the widget. Should this value need to be adjusted for your content, the widget code on line #11 would need to be changed.
```
#set($readTime = $wordCount / 200)
```
Just modify the 200 to the value desired and publish the changes.
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Oliver Beirne over 3 years ago in reply to Michael Kelley

Tremendous, thanks Michael!
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Michael Kelley over 3 years ago in reply to Oliver Beirne

Glad to help! Thank you for the question!
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Michael Kelley over 3 years ago in reply to Oliver Beirne

Glad to help! Thank you for the question!
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