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As of April 2026, Article Read Time Lite is a WordPress read time plugin with 20 active installations and a 0/5 rating0. It has been downloaded 1.8K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 5.5+ and PHP 7.2+. Available on WordPress.org since 2022. Top alternative: Booster Extension.
As the name explains, Article Read Time Lite is a free WordPress plugin which calculates the estimated reading time required to read the article in your site
and presents them in a beautiful manner with our available Paragraph and Block Templates. Currently there are all together 4 Beautiful Pre Designed
templates from which you can choose any as per your desire.
| WordPress | 5.5+ requiredTested up to 6.9.4 |
| PHP | 7.2+ required |
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