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awilum/craft-reading-time
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Reading Time plugin shows the estimated reading time of the content, in seconds or minutes.

1.1.0(3y ago)54301[2 issues](https://github.com/Awilum/craft-reading-time/issues)[1 PRs](https://github.com/Awilum/craft-reading-time/pulls)MITPHP

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Reading Time plugin for [Craft CMS](https://github.com/craftcms)
================================================================

[](#reading-time-plugin-for-craft-cms)

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Reading Time plugin shows the estimated reading time of the content, in seconds or minutes.

Requirements
------------

[](#requirements)

- **Craft CMS**: ^4.0
- **PHP**: ^8.0

Installation
------------

[](#installation)

To install the plugin, follow these instructions.

1. Open your terminal and go to your Craft project:

    ```
    cd /path/to/project

    ```
2. In your terminal run `composer require awilum/craft-reading-time`.
3. In the Control Panel, go to Settings → Plugins and click the “Install” button for Reading Time.

### Usage

[](#usage)

Display reading time in the twig templates:

```
{{ readingTime('Some text here ...') }}

```

Display reading time with custom translates in the twig templates:

```
{{ readingTime('Some text here ...', {
                'minute': 'Minute',
                'minutes': 'Minutes',
                'second':  'Second',
                'seconds': 'Seconds'
                }) }}

```

Display reading time with custom translates and format in the twig templates:

```
{{ readingTime('Some text here ...', {
                'minute': 'Minute',
                'minutes': 'Minutes',
                'second':  'Second',
                'seconds': 'Seconds',
                'format': '[minutes_count] [minutes_label] – [seconds_count] [seconds_label]'
                }) }}

```

Display reading time with custom translates and format that with alternative format that hides the `minutes` and `seconds` label in the twig templates

```
{{ readingTime('Some text here ...', {
                'minute': 'Minute',
                'minutes': 'Minutes',
                'second':  'Second',
                'seconds': 'Seconds',
                'format': '[minutes_count] [minutes_label] – [seconds_count] [seconds_label]'
                }) }}

```

Also you can use `readingTime` filter in your twig templates:

```
{{ 'Some text here ...'|readingTime }}

```

Use `readingTime` function in the PHP:

```
use function Awilum\CraftReadingTime\readingTime;

echo readingTime('Some text here ...');
```

LICENSE
-------

[](#license)

[The MIT License (MIT)](https://github.com/awilum/craft-reading-time/blob/master/LICENSE.md)Copyright (c) [Sergey Romanenko](https://awilum.github.io/)

###  Health Score

24

—

LowBetter than 32% of packages

Maintenance12

Infrequent updates — may be unmaintained

Popularity18

Limited adoption so far

Community8

Small or concentrated contributor base

Maturity48

Maturing project, gaining track record

 Bus Factor1

Top contributor holds 100% of commits — single point of failure

How is this calculated?**Maintenance (25%)** — Last commit recency, latest release date, and issue-to-star ratio. Uses a 2-year decay window.

**Popularity (30%)** — Total and monthly downloads, GitHub stars, and forks. Logarithmic scaling prevents top-heavy scores.

**Community (15%)** — Contributors, dependents, forks, watchers, and maintainers. Measures real ecosystem engagement.

**Maturity (30%)** — Project age, version count, PHP version support, and release stability.

###  Release Activity

Cadence

Every ~11 days

Total

3

Last Release

1244d ago

### Community

Maintainers

![](https://www.gravatar.com/avatar/652557f36367ca6ed585663426c237bf39c4e1b6589b28a20937517bf43b0fe4?d=identicon)[Awilum](/maintainers/Awilum)

---

Top Contributors

[![Awilum](https://avatars.githubusercontent.com/u/477114?v=4)](https://github.com/Awilum "Awilum (30 commits)")

---

Tags

twigCraftcraftcmscraft-plugin

###  Code Quality

TestsPest

Static AnalysisPHPStan

Type Coverage Yes

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