Title: Reading Grade Level not working?
Last modified: September 8, 2023

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# Reading Grade Level not working?

 *  Resolved [Karl-Göran Gustavson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallestonecold/)
 * (@kallestonecold)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/)
 * Hello! I’ve been testing the plugin and we’re probably grabbing one of the licenses
   for this amazing plugin. Right now we’re just testing the (free) functions, but
   I came across something I can’t make sense of. We’re using ACF to build our blocks
   in Gutenberg and some own “black magic” to make it work like we want. And it 
   seems like the plugin can’t read our content properly? It always say: Post Reading
   Grade Level: None Your post does not contain enough content to calculate its 
   reading level. Sure the content is in Swedish, but I tried on the english counterpart
   of this page too and I can’t get any different result. How exactly does this 
   function work? Is it disabled for the free version (cause that would explain 
   it).
   I’ve provided a link to the page I tried it on. This is the Swedish version
   of the page. But as I said I get the same result on the English counterpart.
 * The page I need help with: _[[log in](https://login.wordpress.org/?redirect_to=https%3A%2F%2Fwordpress.org%2Fsupport%2Ftopic%2Freading-grade-level-not-working%2F%3Foutput_format%3Dmd&locale=en_US)
   to see the link]_

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 *  Plugin Author [Steve Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejonesdev/)
 * (@stevejonesdev)
 * [2 years, 9 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17036166)
 * Hello [@kallestonecold](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallestonecold/),
 * You’ve identified a bug in the plugin. The reading level will properly update
   on the summary tab. To get the Readability tab to show you the reading level 
   you’ll need to refresh your browser.
 * I’ve opened an issue in GitHub to get this issue fixed in the next release. You
   can follow the progress here: [https://github.com/equalizedigital/accessibility-checker/issues/275](https://github.com/equalizedigital/accessibility-checker/issues/275)
 * Thanks,
 * Steve
 *  Thread Starter [Karl-Göran Gustavson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallestonecold/)
 * (@kallestonecold)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17077085)
 * So I’ve been checking out the issue #275 and it seems it’s part of 1.5.6 and 
   the plugin is now 1.6.0 (I’ve updated). But it still sais: Post Reading Grade
   Level: None. Your post does not contain enough content to calculate its reading
   level.
 * I’m also wondering if it’s reading our content properly at all. As I said in 
   the initial post. We’re using ACF to generate our blocks and has a very different
   type of admin when it comes to Gutenberg but essentially we’re using Gutenberg(
   minus the preview functionality). I can expand on this if needed. But I get the
   feeling it doesn’t check content at all (for us).
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejonesdev/)
 * (@stevejonesdev)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17081169)
 * Yes, correct the readability is evaluated on the post content. If your post content
   is in a meta field the plugin currently will not evaluated it for readability.
 *  Thread Starter [Karl-Göran Gustavson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallestonecold/)
 * (@kallestonecold)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17081955)
 * No it’s a Gutenberg block made with ACF. So all it’s content is saved in post_content.
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejonesdev/)
 * (@stevejonesdev)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17083594)
 * If it’s in a block the text should be evaluated. What is the character count 
   of the text?
 *  Thread Starter [Karl-Göran Gustavson](https://wordpress.org/support/users/kallestonecold/)
 * (@kallestonecold)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17093454)
 * I can’t seem to find where the character count is in the plugin or do you mean
   how much text is in post_content from all the blocks?
   Characters **2753** Words**
   367** Lines **40**I’ve got screenshots on all views of the plugin on the page
   I’ve tested this time on. But I can’t seem to include them here without self-
   hosting the screenshots.
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejonesdev/)
 * (@stevejonesdev)
 * [2 years, 8 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17093855)
 * When I do a scan of this page I’m getting a reading level of 10th grade. 
   [https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/internationella-program-och-residens/artnexus/](https://www.konstnarsnamnden.se/internationella-program-och-residens/artnexus/)
 * Screenshot: [https://capture.dropbox.com/ZlMsaqKBJ9b9ANTB](https://capture.dropbox.com/ZlMsaqKBJ9b9ANTB)
 * Also, that page has some kind of blocking on it. I can’t scroll or click on anything.
   Maybe that’s by design.
 *  Plugin Author [Steve Jones](https://wordpress.org/support/users/stevejonesdev/)
 * (@stevejonesdev)
 * [2 years, 7 months ago](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/reading-grade-level-not-working/#post-17154121)
 * Closing this out. If it’s still an issue please open please let us know.

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