Add minutes to read in Block Element – Post Meta Template

Hi Dong,

It's likely not showing on single post page because of condition specificity.

Can you share the code you're using to add the read time? (if you're adding it using a hook element or block element, can you share the display rule location?)

Let us know.

Rule location is under post title, all posts.

Code:

function tu_estimated_reading_time() {
    $post = get_post();
    $content = $post->post_content;
    $wpm = 250; // How many words per minute.

    $clean_content = strip_shortcodes( $content );
    $clean_content = strip_tags( $clean_content );
    $word_count = str_word_count( $clean_content );
    $time = ceil( $word_count / $wpm );

    return $time . '-min';
}

add_filter( 'generate_post_date_output', function( $output ) {
    $output .= '<div class="read-time"> • ' . tu_estimated_reading_time() . ' Read</div>';

    return $output;
} );

Thanks

Ah I see now.

Your single post page is using a Block Element - Post meta so the same filter isn't applying to it.

But I think we can just convert the function to a shortcode so you can add a shortcode block to the post meta layout on your Block element template.

add_shortcode( 'show_reading_time', function() {
    ob_start();  
    $post = get_post();
    $content = $post->post_content;
    $wpm = 250; // How many words per minute.

    $clean_content = strip_shortcodes( $content );
    $clean_content = strip_tags( $clean_content );
    $word_count = str_word_count( $clean_content );
    $time = ceil( $word_count / $wpm );
    $display_time = $time . '-min';

    echo '<div class="read-time"> • ' . $display_time . ' Read</div>';
  
    return ob_get_clean();
} );

With this, you can use [show_reading_time] shortcode on your Block Element template layout. :D

That worked. Thanks, Elvin.

No problem. Glad to be of any help. :D