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Estimated reading time in PHP, by Brian Cray
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node.tpl.php
In Drupal 7:
<?php
$postContent = render($content);
$word = str_word_count(strip_tags($postContent));
$m = floor($word / 200);
$s = floor($word % 200 / (200 / 60));
$est = $m . ' minute' . ($m == 1 ? '' : 's') . ', ' . $s . ' second' . ($s == 1 ? '' : 's');
?>
<p>Estimated reading time: <?php echo $est; ?></p>
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post.php
Brian Cray's original, for Wordpress:
<?php
$mycontent = $post->post_content; // wordpress users only
$word = str_word_count(strip_tags($mycontent));
$m = floor($word / 200);
$s = floor($word % 200 / (200 / 60));
$est = $m . ' minute' . ($m == 1 ? '' : 's') . ', ' . $s . ' second' . ($s == 1 ? '' : 's');
?>
<p>Estimated reading time: <?php echo $est; ?></p>
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Props
Total props to Brian Cray: http://briancray.com/posts/estimated-reading-time-web-design/
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gnysek commented Aug 5, 2017 •
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@stemword According to web, average reading speed is between 230-280 words per minute, so he using 200 here is keeping some limit to provide pessimistic reading time. Most of people should read it faster.

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inetbiz commented Mar 19, 2019

@mynameispj have you test this with WP Bakery shortcodes inclusion in post content?

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