Themes and builders override or break the meter
Reading time and progress bar break or are overridden by certain themes and page builders, including Hueman, Salient, Avada, Twenty Twenty-Three and Divi.
Tier I · Proven The best-established problems.
6 public reports · first reported 25 August 2023 · last reported 28 June 2025
What's going wrong
Site owners report that the Read Meter plugin's output is either overridden or disrupted by specific WordPress themes and page builders. Examples include the theme's default fonts and colours replacing the plugin's styling, a progress bar that stops working after switching on a multipurpose theme, a centering rule that moves article images left once the plugin is active, and link underlines appearing after an update. Owners of multipurpose theme sites and builder-based layouts feel this most, and some disable the plugin to get their pages back. The shared gap is the lack of a compatibility check across common themes and builders before a site owner goes live.
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Products affected
Read Meter – Reading Time & Progress Bar.
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Who has this problem
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