Statiq - Plugins - Reading Time

I've been keeping a list of Statiq Community extensions and uses on the main Discussions list:

• Plugins: https://github.com/orgs/statiqdev/discussions/223
• Themes: https://github.com/orgs/statiqdev/discussions/227

I was reviewing some blog posts and found a few from Jeremy Davis, see Statiq 🏷 tag.

To make this easier to add into my own blog I decided to make a new project: Statiq.Plugins and port the features there.

Adding reading time estimates to blog posts from @ Jeremy Davis

• https://blog.jermdavis.dev/posts/2023/reading-time-estimates-statiq

In your appsettings.json add a new property ReadingSpeed and set it to your desired value:

"ReadingSpeed": 200

You can then override the input/_header.cshtml of your theme and place the calculated time after the tags.

<span>~@Model.GetString("ReadingTime") minutes</span>

Example

You can see an example on my test site: https://alexhedley.com/statiqweb-example/posts/1

or

In the future I'm looking to add more functionality. I've raised a number of Issues to track them. If you have any ideas please add your own.

Code

dotnet add package Statiq.Plugins --version #.#.#

• https://github.com/alexhedley/statiq.plugins
  • https://github.com/AlexHedley/statiq.plugins/pkgs/nuget/Statiq.Plugins
• https://www.nuget.org/packages/Statiq.Plugins/