Word Stats Plugin for Eleventy

A lightweight wrapper for making available reading-time to the Eleventy Static Site Generator.

Install

npm i @photogabble/eleventy-plugin-word-stats

Usage

In your Eleventy config file (defaults to .eleventy.js):

const wordStats = require('@photogabble/eleventy-plugin-word-stats');

module.exports = (eleventyConfig) => {
  eleventyConfig.addPlugin(wordStats);
};

Now the wordStats filter will be available to use in your templates. For example with Nunjuck it can be used as such:

<p>{{ content | wordStats }}</p>

Which will by default output along the lines of:

<p>1244 words, 6 min read</p>

Configuration

interface Options {
  output?: (stats: object) => string;
  wordBound?: (char: string) => boolean;
  wordsPerMinute?: number;
}

Output

Function that controls the output of the wordStats filter. It's stats argument is provided an object that matches the following interface:

interface ReadTimeResults {
  text: string;
  time: number;
  words: number;
  minutes: number;
}

Not invented here

If all you need is the word count formatted, there are two very good alternatives to this plugin:

• eleventy-plugin-time-to-read
• eleventy-plugin-reading-time

License

This 11ty plugin is open-sourced software licensed under the MIT License