Displaying Post Modified and Reading Times via WordPress Blocks
A couple of weeks ago, Rich Tabor announced a GitHub repository that listed all of his block plugins. These were already publicly available. However, some had yet to land in the WordPress plugin directory. As a fan of his simple approach to block design, I was quick to start tinkering with them. One of those projects, Post Modified Time Block, landed on WordPress.org yesterday. Along with the yet-released Post Reading Time Block (available on GitHub), the two make a pair of post-meta extensions that should come in handy for many users. Both blocks are meant to be used in conjunction with a post rather than dropped haphazardly around the site. Typically, users would place them in one or more of their templates via the site editor (which requires a block theme). As shown in the following screenshot, I added them to the post header area in Archeo: Adding post updated and reading times to the post header. While WordPress has never had a “reading time” template tag, it does have a post-modified time function. However, there is no equivalent block. There is a recent ticket for selecting between the published or modified date/time via the Post Date block. Until that…
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