Title: Simple Word Count and Reading time
Author: Hapiuc Robert
Published: <strong>January 28, 2016</strong>
Last modified: January 28, 2016

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# Simple Word Count and Reading time

 By [Hapiuc Robert](https://profiles.wordpress.org/psdtohtmlguru/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/simple-word-count-and-reading-time.1.0.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/)

## Description

Display word count and reading time on your article with a nice and clean like YouTube
progress bar.

## Installation

 1. Upload `Word-Count-and-Read-Time` to the `/wp-content/plugins/` directory
 2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress
 3. Simple Word Count and Reading time can be accessed under the “Dashboard” Menu of
    the WordPress Admin.

Or you can search in Dashboard > Plugins > Add New

## FAQ

  How it works?

This plugin works automatically, you don’t hae to do anything. Just install it and
it will update the reading time on all your current articles.

  Where is the data saved?

The data: formated reading time, raw reading time and raw word count are saved on
post meta.

## Reviews

There are no reviews for this plugin.

## Contributors & Developers

“Simple Word Count and Reading time” is open source software. The following people
have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ Hapiuc Robert ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/psdtohtmlguru/)

[Translate “Simple Word Count and Reading time” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/simple-word-count-and-reading-time)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.0

 * First release

## Meta

 *  Version **1.0**
 *  Last updated **10 years ago**
 *  Active installations **10+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.0.1 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.4.34**
 * Tags
 * [blog](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/blog/)[loading-bar](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/loading-bar/)
   [reading time](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/reading-time/)[word count](https://wordpress.org/plugins/tags/word-count/)
 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/advanced/)

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## Contributors

 *   [ Hapiuc Robert ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/psdtohtmlguru/)

## Support

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 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/simple-word-count-and-reading-time/)