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Automatically Calculate and Display Reading Time for Content Sections without using any code. Simply add in the attribute to get the full power of Javascript.

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Demo

Instructions

Firstly, make sure you have the VisualDX script in your <head>. Checkout the Quick Start for how to do this.

1

Add a rich-text-field to your page, and give it an attribute of vdx-readtime-article

Rich Text
Custom Attributes
Name
vdx-readtime-article
Value
2

Add a text-field with the text "5 min read" to your page and give the number value a span. Give the span an attribute of vdx-readtime-time

Span
Custom Attributes
Name
vdx-readtime-time
Value
3

Publish your site to staging and test out both the styles and the behaviour.

An example of the Readtime feature in action

This article has a total readtime of XX minutes!

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