Is it possible to add reading time to blog post

[jarrodscott]

Description

Hello. I was wondering if it is possible to add reading time to individual blog posts? The times show up on the listing page but not the posts. Thanks!

[cscheid]

Yes. Go to quarto.org, click on the search button, type "Reading Time", and the first hit is this:

https://quarto.org/docs/websites/website-listings.html#listing-fields

[jarrodscott]

Thank you @cscheid . I did see that post but it is unclear to me how to get reading time on the individual post page. For example, my listing page looks something like this:

---
title: "Welcome to Quarto "
listing:
  field-display-names:
    title: "Lessons"
  contents: 
    - "lesson-1/index.qmd"
    - "lesson-2/index.qmd"    
  fields: [image, date, title, reading-time, description]  
  sort: "title desc"
  type: default
date-format: long
---

And then for every post a reading time is listed on the landing page. But I cannot figure out how to get reading time displayed on each post. For example, here is the yml header for one of the posts.

---
title: "Lesson 1"
author: "me"
description: |
  In this lesson we go through the steps for creating your first site. 
date: "2024-01-03"
categories: [news, code, analysis]
image: "files/feature.png"
reading-time: true
---

Here I get author, description, title,and date but no reading time. For the record I am using the most up-to-date versions of Quarto, RStudio and R :)

[mcanouil]

Currently, I don't think there is a simple way to add reading time outside of the listing itself.
@dragonstyle Could the estimated reading-time be exposed outside of the listing template and accessible via the meta shortcode and/or Lua filter, etc.?

[jonjoncardoso]

I would like that too. I'd be happy even with a potential hack-y way to achieve it.

[younes-io]

hello folks,
anyone found a way around this? :) I'm looking for exactly the same feature: reading time on individual page

[atlhawksfanatic]

Minimizing comments does not seem to be a productive use of anyones time. Maybe giving a description as to why this feature is difficult to implement would be helpful? The first response to this issue misinterpreted the initial question, then did not give any helpful follow ups.

[mcanouil]

The notification does not come from minimising the comments but from a "+1" comment. The point was to minimise the noise from comments not really useful but that would have caused to completely loose the focus of this thread on an accessibility aspect (screen readers, etc.), in another words, to help navigate across this thread.

This being said, there is a second thread and not only the first response, which was about reading time on the listing page: #6883 (comment)

I doubt having the maintainers explain what is or not difficult to implement/fix is a good use of the time because that time is better spent doing the job (look at the number of issues/discussions).

I believe this thread got lost as a "Q&A", that is why I switched it to a feature request.