How you can add a table of contents WordPress website
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- on Jul 15, 2022
How you can add a table of contents to your WordPress website
Hi guys Today we are going to see How you can add a table of contents to your WordPress website. Lets say you a have website and you have a blog like this Now if your visitors want to read any content on your page,
they have to scroll down Instead of scrolling like this You can add a list of topics on your page And when someone visits your site they will be able to go to a specific section of your website by selecting the topic,
You can do that easily, by adding a table of contents to your website So after Flow this article, you will be able to add a table of contents to your website like this, So let’s get started I’m Bryan from M U Sunny and let’s add a table of contents to our website First,
How you can add a table of contents to your WordPress website
let’s see our site, here it is This is the site where we’re going to add the table of contents. Now to add the table of contents to our site We are going to do 2 steps The first step is to install a plugin, So to install the plugin Let’s go to our
WordPress Dashboard Now go to ‘Plugins’ and click ‘Add New’ Now here, Search for ‘Easy Table of Contents’ And you will get this plugin, Now this is the plugin which will help us to add a table of contents into our post or pages. So to install the plugin,
Let’s click ‘Install’ And then click ‘Activate’ So now we have successfully installed the plugin, Once you have installed the plugin We can go to step 2, which is to choose where you want to add the table of contents, So to choose table of contents Let’s go to settings And click
‘Table of Contents’ And you will get this page here you can see that we have a list of options where you can add the table of contents Let’s say you want to add table of contents to your posts All you have to do is Just enable this option Once you’ve done that,
Just scroll down And click ‘Save Changes’ Okay! So now we have successfully enabled the table of contents Once you have selected where you want to display the table of contents We can now add the table of contents to our post So to add the table of contents
Let’s go to post And click ‘All Posts’ And It will take you to this page Here you can select the post for which you want to add the table of contents. I am going to select this post Once you have selected it just scroll down
Here you can see we have got a new section on our post Now to add table of contents to this post Just enable this option And next, you need to select the headings of your posts which you want to display on your table, So I am going to select these headings
How you can add a table of contents to your WordPress website
Once you’re done Just click ‘Update’ And the table of contents will be added to our post Now if we go back to our website And click ‘Refresh’ You can see that the table of contents has been added to our post Now if someone clicks on this heading,
it will take them to that section of the post. This is how you can add the table of contents to your blog post. So, now you know how to add the table of contents on your post. Now if we go to another blog post, You can see that,
we do not have the table of contents here So like we did before, we need to add the table of contents to all your blog posts Now instead of adding the table of contents for each post one by one, What if you want to automatically add the table of contents to all the posts,
at the same time? So next, let’s see how you can automatically add the table of contents to all your posts. So to automatically add the table of contents Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard And then go to settings And click ‘Table of Contents’
It will take you to this page And here you can see that we have an option called ‘auto-insert’ Now if you want to automatically add the table of contents to all your posts Just enable post here Once you’ve done that Just scroll down And click
‘Save Changes’ Now if we go back to our website And click ‘refresh’ You can see that the table of contents has been added to this post Now if you click on a heading It will take you to that particular content. Okay!
This is how you can add the table of contents to all your post on your site. Now let’s say you want to remove the table of Contents from this particular post. How do you remove it? So to do that Just go back to your wordpress dashboard
Now just scroll down And here you can see that We have an option called ‘Limit Path’ here you need to paste the path-link of the post from which you want to remove the table of contents. So to get the path-link Let’s go to our post Now
here you can see this is the path-link of your post So just copy this link with the slash Now let’s go back to this tab And then paste it here Now click ‘Save Changes’ As soon as you click save changes the table of contents
will be removed from your post So to check it, Lets go to our post And click ‘Refresh You can see that the table of contents has been removed. Okay! Now you know how to remove the table of contents for a particular post.
But what if you want to remove a heading from the table? So next, let’s see how you can remove a particular heading from the table of contents So to remove the heading First let’s copy the heading which you want to remove As I want to remove
this heading I’m going to copy this Once you have copied it Now click ‘Edit Post’ And then scroll down Here you will find an option called ‘exclude headings’ Now here paste the heading which we have copied earlier And click ’Update’
And the heading will be removed from the table Now if we go to our site As you can see we now have this heading Now if we click ‘Refresh’ You can see that the heading has been removed from the table of contents. Okay! Next,
Let’s go to the BONUS part of this tutorial Where we see how we can add the table of contents on the sidebar like this So to add the table to the sidebar Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard Go to appearance Click ‘Widgets’
And you will get this page, Here you can see the sidebar of our website Now to add the table on our sidebar Just drag and drop the table of contents widget here And you will get this box Here enter a title for your table I am going to enter
‘contents’ Once you’ve done that Click ‘Save’ And then click ‘Done’ And the table of contents will be added to our sidebar So now let’s to go our site And click ‘Refresh’ You can see that our table of contents has been added to the sidebar.
And as you can see, we also have the table of contents here now if you don’t want the table of contents in both the places You can remove it from the posts Next, let’s see how you can remove the table of contents from posts
So to do that Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard As you can see, the table of content is enabled for posts So let’s disable these Now scroll down And click ‘save’ Now if we go back to our site And click ‘refresh’
You can see that the table of contents has been removed from posts Okay! Now if you scroll down, you can see that, the table of contents is also going up, Instead of this, what if you want to fix your table of content like this So to fix the table of contents First,
you need to install a plugin So to install a plugin Let’s go to our WordPress dashboard Now go to ‘Plugins’ and click ‘Add New’ Now here, Search for ‘Fixed Widgets’ And you will get this plugin So, this is the plugin which helps
us to fix the table on our website So to install this plugin Let’s click ‘Install’ And then click ‘Activate’ So, now we have successfully installed the plugin Once you have installed the plugin. Now to fix the table Let’s go to appearance And click
‘Widgets’ And you will get this page Now click the table of contents widget Which we have added to the sidebar So to fix the table on the sidebar Just enable this option And click ‘Save’ Now your table will be fixed on the sidebar So to check
it Let’s go back to our site And click ‘Refresh’ Now if we scroll down You can see that the table of contents is fixed And it shows the particular heading as we scroll down the page Okay! So that’s it, guys This is how you can add the table of contents to your WordPress website
Install ‘Easy Table of Contents’ plugin
Choose where to add the table of contents
Automatically add the table of contents to all the posts
Remove the table of contents from a particular post
Remove particular heading
Add the table of contents on the sidebar
Fix the table of contents on the sidebar
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