FlowRead is a powerful WordPress plugin designed to enhance your website’s reading experience. It provides essential reading tools that help visitors understand content depth and manage their time more effectively.

Key Features

✨ Reading Progress Bar
– Visual scroll-progress indicator with Classic/Gradient styles, adjustable height, custom colors, and selective post type display.

⏱️ Article Read Time
– Auto-calculates estimated reading time with configurable WPM, custom styling, and multiple display formats.

🔢 Dynamic Word Counter
– Real-time word counting for admin editor and frontend fields, with min/max limits, progress bar, floating or inline display, and full UI customisation.

Why FlowRead?

Boost User Engagement – Reading progress bars keep visitors engaged by showing content depth
Improve Time Management – Article read time helps visitors plan their reading sessions
Reduce Bounce Rates – Set proper expectations with reading time estimates
Fully Customizable – Complete control over colors, styles, and display options
Performance Optimized – Lightweight and fast-loading
SEO Friendly – Increases time-on-site metrics that benefit your rankings

Customization Options

Colors: Customize background color, primary color, and gradient colors
Size: Adjust progress bar height from 1 to 100 pixels
Position: Choose where to display the progress bar (top, bottom, or fixed top)
Post Types: Select which post types should show the features
Speed: Customize words per minute for accurate read time

Perfect For

Blog websites needing better user engagement
News and magazine sites
Educational content platforms
Long-form content publishers
Any WordPress site focused on reading experience

Development

Requirements:
– PHP 7.4 or higher
– WordPress 5.0 or later

Built with:
– Modern PHP Object-Oriented Programming
– WordPress Plugin Standards
– PSR-4 Autoloading
– Composer Dependency Management

Support

For support, feature requests, or bug reports, please visit:

Privacy Policy

FlowRead – Smart Reading Experience for Websites uses Appsero SDK to collect some telemetry data upon user’s confirmation. This helps us to troubleshoot problems faster and make product improvements.

Appsero SDK does not gather any data by default. The SDK only starts gathering basic telemetry data when a user allows it via the admin notice. We collect the data to ensure a great user experience for all our users.

Integrating Appsero SDK DOES NOT IMMEDIATELY start gathering data, without confirmation from users in any case.

Learn more about how Appsero collects and uses this data.

Author

Sydur Rahman
– Plugin: FlowRead – Smart Reading Experience for Websites

License

This plugin is licensed under the GPL-2.0+ License.
You are free to use, modify, and distribute this plugin under the terms of the GPL-2.0+ license.

See the license file included with the plugin for full details.

Credits

Developed by Sydur Rahman
Built for WordPress community
Following WordPress coding standards and best practices

SEO Keywords

reading progress bar, article read time, reading time estimate, user engagement, bounce rate reduction, reading experience, WordPress plugin, content metrics, reader tools, website engagement, smart reading, content depth indicator, estimated reading time

Disclaimer

This plugin is provided “as-is” without any warranty. Use at your own risk. Always backup your website before installing new plugins.