Fattami Reading Time

Fattami Reading Time adds a small, elegant “Reading time: 4 minutes” badge to your posts so visitors know what to expect before they start reading.

Most reading time plugins rely on PHP’s str_word_count(), which only understands ASCII letters and therefore undercounts French accented words, and completely ignores Arabic, Cyrillic, Chinese, Japanese or Korean text. Fattami Reading Time uses Unicode-aware counting instead:

• Latin, Cyrillic, Arabic, Hebrew and similar scripts are counted word by word (accents and apostrophes included).
• Chinese, Japanese and Korean characters are counted individually.
• Shortcodes, HTML tags, scripts and styles are stripped before counting.

Features

• Automatic badge before or after the content of the post types you choose.
• Adjustable reading speed (words per minute).
• Custom label, or no label at all.
• Optional word count next to the reading time.
• [fattami_reading_time] shortcode to place the badge anywhere (supports id and label attributes).
• Lightweight: one small stylesheet, loaded only on pages where a badge is displayed. No JavaScript, no external requests.
• Translation ready and compatible with block themes and classic themes.
• Removes its own settings when uninstalled.

Developer hooks

• fattami_reading_time_word_count – filter the word count of a post.
• fattami_reading_time_badge_html – filter the final badge markup.