Read Later Buttons WordPress Plugin
Adds "read later" buttons to a site. Can send content to Kindle (additional plugin required), Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability.
Read Later Buttons provides a widget and a shortcode for displaying "read later" buttons for the popular apps Instapaper, Pocket, and Readability. It can also display a Send to Kindle button if that plugin is installed, letting your users send your content to their e-reader to enoy when they have the time.
This plugin is designed to function well and look good without much fuss, but it also provides a shortcode and filters so you can control how the buttons look & work.
Shortcode
Use the [read_later_buttons] shortcode to render buttons for every one of the supported services. You can also include the names of one or more services (i.e. [read_later_buttons instapaper pocket]) to just get those buttons. Valid service names are kind
instapaper
Kindle
pocket
read later
readability
readlater
widget
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Usage of Read Later Buttons over time
June 2023 — July 2024Between June 2023 and July 2024 the number of sites running this plugin went from 13 to 4 — down 9 (-69.2%).
| Month | Sites | Change |
|---|---|---|
| July 2024 | 4 | -1 |
| June 2024 | 5 | +0 |
| May 2024 | 5 | +0 |
| April 2024 | 5 | +0 |
| March 2024 | 5 | -1 |
| February 2024 | 6 | -1 |
| January 2024 | 7 | +0 |
| December 2023 | 7 | -1 |
| November 2023 | 8 | +0 |
| October 2023 | 8 | +0 |
| September 2023 | 8 | -1 |
| August 2023 | 9 | -4 |
| July 2023 | 13 | +0 |
| June 2023 | 13 | — |
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