Wasseem Khayrattee

<h3>About</h3>
<p>PloverToc is a simple and efficient WordPress plugin that automatically generates a table of contents (TOC) for your posts, pages and custom post types. By using a shortcode, you can easily insert a TOC that helps your readers navigate through your content by providing direct links to different sections. You can also customize the heading levels included in the TOC.</p>
<p>It’s focused on providing a sound TOC interface with no “bells and whistles”. While it does come with some helpful features for customizing the included heading levels via shortcode attributes, the esthetic design and styling of the TOC is left to the user to implement using their own CSS.</p>
<p>Additionally, it does add SiteNavigationElement schema to enhance your site’s SEO.</p>
<h3>Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Automatically generate a table of contents for your posts and pages.</li>
<li>Customizable heading levels to include in the TOC (e.g., H1, H2, H3).</li>
<li>Collapse TOC on page upload, without any JavaScript.</li>
<li>This plugin is 100% javascript-free.</li>
<li>Simple shortcode to insert the TOC anywhere in your content.</li>
<li>Compatible with the latest version of WordPress with Gutenberg.</li>
<li>Compatible with the Classic Editor as well.</li>
<li>Users are responsible for styling the TOC using their own CSS.</li>
<li>Custom post types are supported, as long as their content is output with the the_content() template tag.</li>
<li>Will generate SiteNavigationElement schema to enhance SEO, this can be turned off via shortcode attribute.</li>
</ul>
<h3>Requirements</h3>
<ul>
<li>PHP >= 8.0</li>
<li>WordPress >= 6.4.0</li>
</ul>
<h3>Contributing</h3>
<p>The best way to contribute to the development of this plugin is by participating on the GitHub project:</p>
<p><a href="https://github.com/PloverHub/plover-toc" rel="nofollow ugc">https://github.com/PloverHub/plover-toc</a></p>
<p>There are many ways you can contribute:</p>
<ul>
<li>Raise an issue if you found one</li>
<li>Create/send us a Pull Request with your bug fixes and/or new features</li>
<li>Provide us with your feedback and/or suggestions for any improvement or enhancement</li>
<li>Translation – this is an area we are yet to do</li>
</ul>


PloverToc

Automatically generate a TOC for posts, pages and custom post types by parsing headers. It adds ID anchor attributes for proper in-page links.

LuckyWP

<p>Creates SEO-friendly table of contents for your posts, pages or custom post types. Great customizable appearance.</p>
<h4>Features</h4>
<ul>
<li>Automatical insertion a table of contents (configure post types and position).</li>
<li>SEO-friendly: table of contents code is ready to use by Google for snippets on result page.</li>
<li>Insert by shortcode, Gutenberg block or widget.</li>
<li>Button on toolbar of the classic editor.</li>
<li>Gutenberg block into “Common Blocks”.</li>
<li>Setting the minimum number of headings to display table of contents.</li>
<li>Setting the depth of headings for table of contents.</li>
<li>Skip headings by level or text.</li>
<li>Hierarchical or linear view.</li>
<li>Numeration items: decimal or roman numbers in order or nested.</li>
<li>Customizable appearance: width, float, title font size and weight, items font size, colors.</li>
<li>Color schemes (dark, light, white, transparent, inherit from theme) and the ability to override colors.</li>
<li>Toggle Show/Hide (optionally)</li>
<li>Customizable labels.</li>
<li>Smooth scroll (optionally).</li>
<li>Setting offset top for smooth scroll.</li>
<li>Wrap table of contents with <!–noindex–> tag (optionally).</li>
<li>Pretty hash in URL (like <code>example.com/faq/#how_do_this</code>).</li>
<li>RTL support.</li>
<li>Available override global settings for a particular post.</li>
<li>Highly compatible with WordPress themes and plugins.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Auto Insert</h4>
<p>For automatical insertion a table of contents in a posts, select option “Auto Insert Table of Contents” in the plugin settings (tab “Auto Insert”).</p>
<p>Supported positions:</p>
<ul>
<li>before first heading;</li>
<li>after first heading;</li>
<li>after first block (paragraph or heading);</li>
<li>top of post content;</li>
<li>bottom of post content.</li>
</ul>
<p>You can also select post types to which the table of contents will be automatically added.</p>
<h4>Manual Insert</h4>
<p>For manual insertion a table of content in a posts, use one of the ways:</p>
<ul>
<li>button “Table of Contents” on toolbar in classic editor;</li>
<li>gutenberg block “Table of Contents”;</li>
<li>shortcode <code>[lwptoc]</code>.</li>
</ul>
<h4>Pretty hash in URL</h4>
<p>By default, hash generated as heading text (for example, <code>#How_Do_This</code>). You can change hash format in global settings, tab “Misc.”.</p>
<p>For non-English websites it is recommended to enable the <code>Intl</code> PHP extension.</p>
<h3>Compatibility</h3>
<p>LuckyWP Table of Contents was successfully tested with the following plugins:</p>
<ul>
<li>Elementor Page Builder</li>
<li>Beaver Builder and Beaver Builder Themer Add-On</li>
<li>WPBakery Page Builder</li>
<li>Oxygen</li>
<li>WordPress Multilingual Plugin (WPML), <a href="https://wpml.org/plugin/luckywp-table-of-contents/" rel="nofollow ugc">officially confirmed</a></li>
<li>Rank Math, <a href="https://rankmath.com/compatibility/luckywp-table-of-contents/" rel="nofollow ugc">officially confirmed</a></li>
<li>WP Rocket</li>
<li>Toolset Views and Toolset Access</li>
</ul>
<h3>Hooks</h3>
<h4>Filters <code>lwptoc_before</code>, <code>lwptoc_after</code></h4>
<p>Use for add custom HTML before/after the table of contents.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('lwptoc_before', function ($before) {
    return '<p>Example text before TOC.</p>' . $before;
});
</code></pre>
<h4>Filter <code>lwptoc_shortcode_tag</code></h4>
<p>Use this filter for change shortcode tag name <code>[lwptoc]</code>.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('lwptoc_shortcode_tag', function ($tag) {
    return 'toc';
});
</code></pre>
<h4>Filter <code>lwptoc_heading_id</code></h4>
<p>Use for modify heading ID.</p>
<p>Example:</p>
<pre><code>add_filter('lwptoc_heading_id', function ($id, $label) {
    return $id;
}, 10, 2);
</code></pre>


LuckyWP Table of Contents

It does what one expects it to do and offers tons of useful options if one wants to tweak something. Simply great!

Really nice


Tried many ToC plugins, this one is great because it looks clean, and correctly handles the default state whether it's opened or closed!


Great plugin!

This is a great plugin! Initially, I wasn't sure about installing a plugin that automatically installs table of contents on every posts, instead of selected the posts I want to show the TOC on. After using it, I came to the conclusion that:
1/ It's much better if you may uninstall the plugin, it won't require removing code from posts;
2/ The options ensure you will make TOC available on posts that realy need it. It's very well thought.

Creates SEO-friendly table of contents for your posts/pages. Works automatically or manually (via shortcode, Gutenberg block or widget).

PloverToc vs LuckyWP Table of Contents