Readly Documentation

Overview

Show the reading time of your posts, a reading progress bar at the top of the page and a back to top button.

• Reading time on posts
• Reading progress bar
• Back to top button

Best for: Blogs and content sites

Installation

1. Download readly-reading-time.zip from My account › My plugins or from your order email. Do not unzip it.
2. In WordPress, go to Plugins › Add New Plugin › Upload Plugin, choose the zip and click Install Now, then Activate.

Requires WordPress 6.0+, PHP 7.4+. Works with any theme, block themes and page builders.

Features

• “6 min read” above posts
• Images counted in the reading time
• Progress bar at the top of the page
• Back to top button
• Posts, pages or any post type
• Your text, reading speed and color
• Shortcode [readly_time]

Shortcodes

Paste a shortcode in any page, post, widget or page builder text block.

• [readly_time]

Options of each shortcode are described in the Features above and in the plugin settings page.

For developers

Customize the plugin from your theme’s functions.php or a small plugin, without editing its files (your changes survive updates).

Filters

• readly_active
• readly_sanitize

add_filter( 'readly_active', function ( $value ) {
	// Change $value here.
	return $value;
}, 10, 1 );

Actions

• readly_admin_after_form
• readly_admin_before_form
• readly_admin_form_end

Updates

Updates are free. When a new version is out, it appears in Dashboard › Updates of your WordPress site and you can install it in one click, or turn on automatic updates in Plugins. This works for the zip downloaded from your Woo-Plugins account; older copies can be replaced by downloading the latest version from My plugins. See the changelog.

Frequently asked questions