You can encourage your visitors to read any post by showing them estimated post reading time. Post Reading Time is a WordPress plugin that estimates the time a reader will need to go through the article. Likewise an average visitor takes a minute to read 250 – 300, so you can change the default settings in way you like, the default for this plugin is 200 words per minute.
Post Reading Time Features:
- Includes Widget support
- You can customize the words per minute number
- It show time in minutes or both minutes and seconds
- Allows you to select the prefix and suffix before the time shows
First of all install and activate it the you have two options. Either add its widget from Dashboard-> Appearance-> Widgets-> Post Reading Time
OR drop the following code in your theme templates:
<?php post_read_time(); ?>