WordPress is a popular content management system (CMS), but it can be limiting as a blogging platform without the use of plugins. Therefore, we’ll create a small plugin in this post that displays the reading time for an individual post. This is one of the assignments for a course I teach that was creating the reading time using custom fields. Thus, I decided to create a short plugin to show how easily WordPress could be customized with plugins. Before we start, let’s set some assumptions that will make development easier. First, the average reading time is 250 words per minute.…
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