Do you need a WordPress Table of Contents plugin for your WordPress site? And, of course, it is needless to say that plugin is a great tool for your WordPress sites. It makes the site more functional, dynamic, and featured. If you want to make your website more attractive, and popular and drive more organic traffic, then your site must be equipped with the necessary tools and plugins. You should make the website responsive for all devices such as desktops, tab, and mobiles too. Besides, the navigation too must be user-friendly, smooth, and attractive.
Now, as, we are going to discuss on WordPress Table of Contents plugin, so, we will turn our tutorials to this point.
There are many WordPress tables of contents plugins available in the WordPress plugin directory and I have picked up the best for you.
Table of Contents
- Importance of table of contents
- Easy Table of Contents
- LuckyWP Table of Contents
- Table of Contents Plus
- Simple TOC
- Rich Table of Contents
Importance of Table of Contents
When you write blog posts, you see that the length of the posts is not the same for all of them. Length of posts, pages, and contents vary based on what you are including in your articles and what you offer to your readers. For longer posts, you need to insert a table of contents for the reader’s interest and best user experience. Because when your post becomes too lengthy, readers can’t jump to a heading or subheading quickly. In such an occurrence, it takes time. More clearly, a lengthy post contains many subheadings, hence they should contain clickable jump links or anchor links in the upper part of your post. Inserting clickable jump links in a form of a table in the upper part of a post is good practice from the point of user’s advantage for lengthy posts. Doing so is a good practice for readers. It saves time and effort for readers. Readers can easily jump to any subheading by clicking an anchor link included in the table of contents. The current article gives a list of WordPress table of contents plugins which you can install and activate to use the table of contents feature.
WordPress Table of Contents Plugin helps to:
- Insert table of content in the post
- Create clickable jump links
- Adds jump links or anchor links for subheadings without having added HTML anchor tags in the HTML anchor field in the WordPress
- Save time for editors as well as for readers.
- Click on any jump link pointing to the subheading. Thus readers can go to any subheading of your post directly from the table of the content section.
- Engage readers, as they can guess about your content details just by looking at the table of contents.
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Easy Table of Contents
Easy Table of Contents is a WordPress plugin used to create and insert a table of contents in posts, pages, and custom post types. The plugin has 200,000+ downloads and is available in 15 languages.
This WordPress table of contents plugin is very easy to customize and set up. Once the plugin is installed, you can customize it with ease as you like. You can add codes, CSS, themes, background color, link color, etc. Even it lets you choose bullets, roman numbers, and decimal numbers while you are setting up it in order to activate the plugin to insert a table of contents on auto-pilot. It allows you to enable and disable multiple h1, h2, h3…….h6 tags in the subheadings.
Also, you can enable and disable the table of contents(TOC).
It offers various customizing options for TOC such as Toggle Toc, floating TOC, and placing TOC in the sidebar by using a widget.
This plugin is compatible with other third-party tools like Gutenberg, Classic Editor, Divi, Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder and Visual Composer page editors, etc.
- Users can optionally hide the table of contents
- Automatically it generates a table of contents for your posts, pages, and custom post types
- Provides many easy-to-understand options to configure when and where to insert the table of contents.
- Supports the Rank Math plugin.
- Compatible with the Classic Editor, Gutenberg, Divi, Elementor, WPBakery Page Builder, and Visual Composer page editors.
LuckyWP Table of Contents
LuckyWP Table of Contents is open-source software and is available in 32 languages. It has 70,000+ installations. It runs WordPress 4.7 or higher to run successfully. It creates an SEO-friendly table of contents for your posts and pages. The plugin is compatible with RankMath, WP Rocket, WPML, Oxygen, WPBakery Page Builder, Beaver Builder, Elementor Page Builder, etc.
This WordPress table of Contents plugin can automatically create and insert a table of contents. The plugin may insert and locate the table of contents into five positions.
The positions are:
- Before first heading
- After first heading
- Top of post content
- Bottom of post content
- After the first block
I recommend locating the table of content after the first block and before the subheadings.
Also, you can customize the appearance of the table of contents in theme, color, background, font, size etc. The linked text may be arranged by decimal numbers, roman numbers, bullets, etc.
The plugin is enriched in features:
- Automatically insert TOC
- It lets you locate its position of appearance
- You can customize its background, theme, color, font, size, etc.
- Works with third-party plugins and tools
- You can toggle the appearance
- Wrap table of contents with tag (optionally).
- RTL support.
- SEO-friendly in many aspects like its code is ready to use by Google for snippets on the result page.
- Pretty hash in URL.
Considering these features, you can take it in the list of the WordPress table of contents plugins.
Table of Contents Plus
Table of Content Plus is another popular WordPress table of contents plugin. The plugin has 300,000+ active installations. The plugin needs WordPress 3.2 or higher to run successfully. The plugin is available in 22 languages.
The plugin creates contents specific TOC automatically for your post or page. It lets you customize color, fonts, font size, font color, background color, etc. Even you can drag the TOC to your desired position in the sidebar. The plugin lets you enable or disable TOC for a post or page. You can define its appearance including the location of appearance. You can define headings too.
- The plugin automatically creates a table of contents for your post and page.
- The TOC appears before the first heading.
- Links are SEO-friendly and Google can handle them easily.
- No need to add shortcodes.
- Customization options
Simple TOC
The Simple TOC is an easy-to-use and open-source WordPress table of contents plugin. It inserts a table of contents into your posts and pages. You do not need to add any code. The plugin is available in 10 languages. The software is tested up to WordPress version 5.8.2 and it needs WP version 5.0 to run successfully.
Features:
- No need to add JavaScript or CSS
- Specially designed for Gutenberg.
- It inherits the style of your theme.
- Supports column block layouts.
- Supports RankMath
- Inherits the style of your theme.
- Minimal and valid HTML output.
- Works with non-Latin texts. Tested with Japanese and Arabic.
Rich Table of Contents
The Rich Table of Contents (RTOC) is another WordPress table of Contents plugin. The plugin being open-source, it is free for all. It needs 5.3.2 or a version of WordPress.
Features:
- Freely select the table of contents.
- Auto-inserting pages and posts
- Choosing heading tags h2, h3, or h4.
- Choose the minimum number of subheadings to show TOC.
- Design display at right or at left.
- Customize color, fonts, size, etc.
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