[Gelöst] Create Time to Read

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[Chris]

I have seen these "Time to Read" plugins where it will grab the text from your page and estimate the length of time it will take to read the post, like this one: https://wordpress.org/plugins/reading-time-wp/

But this reads the post content section, and I have stripped that out with Toolset CPT.

Do you have a way that would allow me to add in all my custom fields (or even automatically grab all of the ones on the page) and then calculate the time to read in the same fashion.... allowing me to insert a shortcode on my page to display?

I might be able to modify this with your guidance: hidden link

Thanks for your help in advance.

[Christian Cox]

Looks like you could append all your custom field content to $content variable to have their values counted in the $word_count variable. I don't know of a good way to automatically add all custom field values...you must add code for each field. Something like this (untested, just a guess):

function reading_time() {
    $content = get_post_field( 'post_content', $post->ID );
    $content .= types_render_field('field_slug', array( "id"=>$post->ID) );
    $content .= types_render_field('other_field_slug', array( "id"=>$post->ID) ); // copy and paste this line as needed for additional fields
    $word_count = str_word_count( strip_tags( $content ) );
    ... code continues ...

We have documentation for the types_render_field function here, and examples for different types of fields:
https://toolset.com/documentation/customizing-sites-using-php/functions/

Note that types_render_field will add formatting and markup to the custom field values. If you want the raw values from the database, you should use get_post_meta instead. Types custom fields are stored with a prefix of "wpcf-", so the code might look like this:

function reading_time() {
    $content = get_post_field( 'post_content', $post->ID );
    $content .= get_post_meta($post->ID, 'wpcf-field_slug', true );
    $content .= get_post_meta($post->ID, 'wpcf-other_field_slug', true ); // copy and paste this line as needed for additional fields
    $word_count = str_word_count( strip_tags( $content ) );
    ... code continues ...

https://developer.wordpress.org/reference/functions/get_post_meta/

[Chris]

Yup, got it. Just had to define global $post.

Thanks!

[Christian Cox]

Great, let me know if you run into any other problems with this code.