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Reading Tools: Word Count & View Counter with Accessibility Tools
Reading Tools: Word Count & View Counter with Accessibility Tools

Reading Tools: Word Count & View Counter with Accessibility Tools

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The reading tools bar displayed on a sample post.

The reading tools bar displayed on a sample post.

Did you know that displaying an estimated reading time can increase user engagement and significantly lower your bounce rate? Readers love predictability. By giving them clear reading meta insights and powerful accessibility tools, you transform your standard WordPress layout into a premium, reader-friendly environment like Medium or Wikipedia.

LevelNetwork WRT Reading Tools is the ultimate all-in-one engagement toolkit for content creators, bloggers, and magazine websites. It effortlessly injects a beautiful, fully customizable utility bar into your posts or pages, combining data transparency with modern accessibility features.

Why Choose WRT Reading Tools?

  • Drive Higher Engagement: Showing reading stats encourages visitors to stay and complete the article, boosting your site’s SEO dwell time.
  • Flawless Cache-Compatible View Tracking: Unlike other broken statistics plugins, our advanced post view counter bypasses server-side caching (WP Rocket, Cloudflare, LiteSpeed) via dynamic AJAX tracking.
  • A Visual Match For Any Theme: Choose from 50 built-in professional color palettes with a stunning live admin preview area to mirror your brand perfectly.
  • 100% GDPR Compliant & Lightweight: No external tracking scripts, no heavy dependencies, no cookies storing personal data. Just clean, optimized code.

Core Features Built for Modern Blogs

  • Dynamic Word Count & Reading Time: Automatically calculates the exact words in your content and reveals the read time based on custom Words Per Minute (WPM) speed.
  • Exclude Selectors (Anti-Bloat Tech): Uniquely ignore injected ads, related post boxes, or author bios from your word count, print layouts, and font resizing for 100% accurate statistics.
  • Granular Post/Page ID Exclusions: Suppress the automatic display of the toolbar on specific individual pieces of content by entering their IDs directly in the display settings.
  • Advanced Post View Counter: Track page popularity safely with nonces and custom cookie durations. Features a custom ‘Start Value’ to reflect prior historic traffic.
  • Interactive Font Size Resizer: Empower readers with user-friendly + / - and Reset buttons. Their text preference is saved seamlessly via LocalStorage.
  • Instant Contrast / Night Mode Toggle: Enhance readability in low-light environments. Select your favorite access icon directly from the backend.
  • Targeted Clean Print Engine: Prints exclusively the core article body through a hidden background iframe, removing noisy sidebars, headers, and navigation menus.

Clean Admin Interface & Theme Compatibility

Managing your reader experience shouldn’t be difficult. The redesigned two-column settings dashboard provides blockquote explanations for every single field, alongside shortcode references and layout tips.

  • Fully works with custom CSS selectors (.entry-content, #main, etc.) to hook perfectly into any modern WordPress theme, block editor, or page builder.
  • Handled automatically: Excluded from homepages and catalog views, with a responsive utility layer to hide the bar on mobile screens if desired.
  • Dedicated Shortcode [lnwrt_only_tools] for flexible manual widget placement or structural sidebars.