Table of Contents Plus – Automatic Table of Contents for Posts & Pages

Table of Contents Plus automatically creates a table of contents for your long posts and pages by reading their headings. Your readers get a clickable summary at the top of the article, jump straight to the section they need, and stay on the page longer. Set it up once and every qualifying post gets a table of contents from then on, with no block to insert and no shortcode to remember. A clear table of contents also helps search engines understand how your content is structured, and Google sometimes turns those headings into jump-to links in the search results. It is a small addition that improves navigation for readers and gives your long-form articles a better chance of standing out. Automatic Table of Contents for Every Long Post Turn the table of contents on for posts, pages, or any custom post type, and it appears automatically once an article has enough headings. You set the threshold, so short posts stay clean and only genuinely long content gets an index. Place the table of contents before the first heading, after the first paragraph, at the top, or at the bottom, so it fits the way you write. Smooth Scrolling and Clean Anchor Links Every entry in the table of contents is an anchor link that jumps to the matching heading. Smooth scrolling is on by default, so clicking an item glides down to the section instead of snapping to it. Anchor IDs are lowercase and hyphenated, which keeps your URLs readable and easy to share, for example yoursite.com/guide/#getting-started. Style the Table of Contents to Match Your Theme Choose from several ready-made themes or set your own colors for the background, border, title, and links. A live preview shows each theme before you apply it, so you see the result without saving and reloading. Set the width and font size, show a numbered list or a plain list, and nest sub-headings so the table of contents mirrors the structure of your article. Decide Exactly Where the Table of Contents Appears Show the table of contents across your whole site or limit it to one section by URL path, keep it off the homepage, and set how many headings an article needs before one shows up. Pick which heading levels to include, exclude individual headings by name with wildcard matching, and add the [no_toc] shortcode to any post to hide the table of contents on that page. Table of Contents Widget and Shortcode Want the table of contents in your sidebar? Add the Table of Contents Plus widget or block to any widget area and it follows the post being viewed. For full control over placement, the [toc] shortcode outputs the table of contents wherever you put it in your content, and it works inside synced (reusable) blocks. A Table of Contents for Any Kind of Content

• Documentation and knowledge bases
• Long-form guides and tutorials
• Recipes and how-to posts
• Wikis and reference pages
• Product and support pages
• Research and academic articles

Built by the AIOSEO Team Table of Contents Plus is maintained by the team behind All in One SEO, the WordPress SEO toolkit used on over 3 million websites. It fits naturally alongside your SEO setup, since cleaner headings and readable anchor links improve the on-page navigation your SEO plugin already cares about. Custom post types are supported. Automatic insertion works whenever a post type outputs its content with the_content(), and each registered post type appears in the settings so you can enable the ones you want. Table of Contents Plus and Other Table of Contents Tools If you have been comparing table of contents options, you have probably seen Easy Table of Contents, LuckyWP Table of Contents, and Heroic Table of Contents. Table of Contents Plus has been maintained since 2013 with the same focus: automatic insertion and a light footprint, so you get a table of contents on every long post without adding a page builder or dropping a block into each article. Branding Guidelines When writing about this plugin, please use the correct branding:

• Table of Contents Plus (correct)
• TOC+ (correct short form)
• Table of Contents+ (incorrect)
• TableOfContents Plus (incorrect)

The normal plugin install process applies, that is search for table of contents plus from your plugin screen or via the manual method:

1. Upload the table-of-contents-plus folder into your /wp-content/plugins/ directory
2. Activate the plugin through the 'Plugins' menu in WordPress

That's it! The table of contents will appear on posts and pages with at least three headings. You can change the default settings and more under the Table of Contents Plus menu.

202607 – 23 July 2026

• New: Completely redesigned settings screen, rebuilt on the All in One SEO framework and reorganized into Display, Appearance, Behavior and Advanced tabs
• New: Live preview for each table of contents theme so you can see a color scheme before selecting it
• New: Redesigned About page
• New: "Before first paragraph" and "After first paragraph" position options
• New: post_type attribute on the [sitemap_pages] and [sitemap_posts] shortcodes to list custom post types
• New: data-nosnippet attribute on the table of contents so search engines don't use it as the result snippet
• New: wpml-config.xml so the heading text, show/hide labels and sitemap labels can be translated with WPML/Polylang
• New: navigation role and ARIA label on the table of contents container, and a new toc_title_tag filter to change the title tag for better accessibility
• Fixed: Bullet points no longer appear when the Numbered list option is enabled
• Fixed: The first list item no longer overflows when List spacing is turned off
• Fixed: Text in the Black theme is now light-colored for readability
• Fixed: "Restrict path" option now works when WordPress is installed in a subdirectory (the path is matched against the site root instead of the domain root)
• Fixed: Table of contents no longer appears in auto-generated excerpts
• Fixed: Empty and image-only headings no longer produce blank items in the table of contents
• Fixed: "Exclude headings" now correctly matches headings containing special characters such as ?, /, ( and &
• Fixed: Smooth scroll no longer intercepts clicks on anchor links outside the table of contents (resolves conflicts with theme accordions and toggles)
• Fixed: The show/hide toggle state is now remembered per page instead of applying to the entire site
• Fixed: The show/hide toggle now works on sites using translation plugins such as TranslatePress
• Fixed: The [toc] shortcode now works inside synced (reusable) blocks
• Fixed: Help link in the settings page now points to the current documentation