First of all, why should you even need a table of contents in WordPress?
You may be familiar with seeing a table of contents – take a look at our homepage to see what we mean. A table offers users greater ease to navigate around your content, especially if they are long articles.
A table of contents also improves SEO as the table adds links to specific sections of information – something a user is specifically looking for.
Content tables can be created manually using HTML, but for a beginner, it may be confusing as to where to add links and marry them up.
As with WordPress being the fantastic tool that it is, there is an option to use a plugin.
Ready to create your table of contents? Let’s go!
The first task you need to do is install and activate the Easy Table of Contents plugin. This can be found searching in the plugins within WordPress, or downloaded directly from their website here.
What this plugin does is takes your current heading tags (<h1> <h2> etc) and put them into a professional and presentable table for easy navigation.
You can decide style and alignment etc. The rest is done for you. Top plugin – and also the one that I use on the WP Setup Guide page.
Easy Table of Content Plugins also allows you to disable an auto-generated table for each page/post.
Problem creating a table of contents for your blog? Problem solved, I would say 🙂
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