Syed Balkhi

benjaminprojas

AIOSEO Plugin Team

Mike

<p>A powerful yet user friendly plugin that automatically creates a context specific index or table of contents (TOC) for long pages (and custom post types).  More than just a table of contents plugin, this plugin can also output a sitemap listing pages and/or categories across your entire site.</p>
<p>Built from the ground up and with Wikipedia in mind, the table of contents by default appears before the first heading on a page.  This allows the author to insert lead-in content that may summarise or introduce the rest of the page.  It also uses a unique numbering scheme that doesn’t get lost through CSS differences across themes.</p>
<p>This plugin is a great companion for content rich sites such as content management system oriented configurations.  That said, bloggers also have the same benefits when writing long structured articles.</p>
<p>Includes an administration options panel where you can customise settings like display position, define the minimum number of headings before an index is displayed, other appearance, and more.  For power users, expand the advanced options to further tweak its behaviour – eg: exclude undesired heading levels like h5 and h6 from being included; disable the output of the included CSS file; adjust the top offset and more.  Using shortcodes, you can override default behaviour such as special exclusions on a specific page or even to hide the table of contents altogether.</p>
<p>Prefer to include the index in the sidebar?  Go to Appearance > Widgets and drag the TOC+ to your desired sidebar and position.</p>
<p>Custom post types are supported, however, auto insertion works only when the_content() has been used by the custom post type.  Each post type will appear in the options panel, so enable the ones you want.</p>
<p>Collaborate, participate, fork this plugin on <a href="https://github.com/zedzedzed/table-of-contents-plus/" rel="nofollow ugc">Github</a>.</p>
<h3>Shortcodes</h3>
<p>The plugin was designed to be as seamless and painfree as possible and did not require you to insert a shortcode for operation.  However, using the shortcode allows you to fully control the position of the table of contents within your page.  The following shortcodes are available with this plugin.</p>
<p>When attributes are left out for the shortcodes below, they will fallback to the settings you defined under Settings > TOC+.  The following are detailed in the help tab.</p>
<h4>[toc]</h4>
<p>Lets you generate the table of contents at the preferred position.  Useful for sites that only require a TOC on a small handful of pages.  Supports the following attributes:</p>
<ul>
<li>“label”: text, title of the table of contents</li>
<li>“no_label”: true/false, shows or hides the title</li>
<li>“wrapping”: text, either “left” or “right”</li>
<li>“heading_levels”: numbers, this lets you select the heading levels you want included in the table of contents.  Separate multiple levels with a comma.  Example: include headings 3, 4 and 5 but exclude the others with <code>heading_levels="3,4,5"</code></li>
<li>“class”: text, enter CSS classes to be added to the container. Separate multiple classes with a space.</li>
<li>“start”: number, show when this number of headings are present in the content.</li>
</ul>
<h4>[no_toc]</h4>
<p>Allows you to disable the table of contents for the current post, page, or custom post type.</p>
<h4>[sitemap]</h4>
<p>Produces a listing of all pages and categories for your site. You can use this on any post, page or even in a text widget.  Note that this will not include an index of posts so use sitemap_posts if you need this listing.</p>
<h4>[sitemap_pages]</h4>
<p>Lets you print out a listing of only pages. The following attributes are accepted:</p>
<ul>
<li>“heading”: number between 1 and 6, defines which html heading to use</li>
<li>“label”: text, title of the list</li>
<li>“no_label”: true/false, shows or hides the list heading</li>
<li>“exclude”: IDs of the pages or categories you wish to exclude</li>
<li>“exclude_tree”: ID of the page or category you wish to exclude including its all descendants</li>
<li>“child_of”: “current” or page ID of the parent page. Defaults to 0 which includes all pages.</li>
</ul>
<h4>[sitemap_categories]</h4>
<p>Same as <code>[sitemap_pages]</code> but for categories.</p>
<h4>[sitemap_posts]</h4>
<p>This lets you print out an index of all published posts on your site.  By default, posts are listed in alphabetical order grouped by their first letters.  The following attributes are accepted:</p>
<ul>
<li>“order”: text, either ASC or DESC</li>
<li>“orderby”: text, popular options include “title”, “date”, “ID”, and “rand”. See <a href="https://codex.wordpress.org/Class_Reference/WP_Query#Order_.26_Orderby_Parameters" rel="nofollow ugc">WP_Query</a> for a list.</li>
<li>“separate”: true/false (defaults to true), does not separate the lists by first letter when set to false.</li>
</ul>
<p>Use the following CSS classes to customise the appearance of your listing:</p>
<ul>
<li>toc_sitemap_posts_section</li>
<li>toc_sitemap_posts_letter</li>
<li>toc_sitemap_posts_list</li>
</ul>
<h3>Credits</h3>
<p>This plugin was created and maintained for many years by conjur3r. We are grateful for all the hard work he put in and we are excited to continue to build on that!</p>


Table of Contents Plus


The plugin is very good and useful (thanks dear Mike), but since update to 2302, it stopped working and the plugin settings have been reset.



WordPress version 6.2



LiteSpeed cache version 5.3.3


Stop working since the last update


I wonder why TOC+ settings are often restored by default, causing SEO issues. Furthermore, the plugin does not seem compatible with multilingual websites, so I may need to switch to a better solution. It's a pity since the basics of the plugin were great.


Not WPML compatible and settings get erased for no reason


TOC is not generated. Dunnu why, don't care.


does not work

A powerful yet user friendly plugin that automatically creates a table of contents. Can also output a sitemap listing all pages and categories.

Eric Heilig

<p><strong>How it works</strong></p>
<p>The <em>Directory Index Guard</em> plugin works by updating the Apache .htaccess file to include the directive Options -Indexes.  It prevents you from having to edit it yourself via FTP or some other mechanism.</p>
<p><strong>Features</strong></p>
<ul>
<li>Easily turn directory indexes off with one click.</li>
<li>Scan directory structure to check for exposed directory indexes.</li>
<li>Provides a report of which directories are safe or exposed.</li>
<li>Checks to make sure protection is still enabled after the .htaccess file is edited or updated by another process.</li>
<li>Creates a backup of the existing .htaccess before modifying.</li>
<li>Checks the syntax of the .htaccess file for errors before saving.</li>
</ul>
<p><strong>What is a Web Server Directory Listing?</strong></p>
<p>A web server directory listing, commonly called a directory index, is a list of the contents in a folder stored on your WordPress server. Similar to your local computer directory, a web server has a directory structure for storing files and folders.  If directory listings are turned on, the server will show all files and subfolders contained in that directory.   The files can be viewed or downloaded, and you can move into and out of subfolders like you would on your local computer.</p>
<p><strong>Why is this dangerous?</strong></p>
<p>Often times, backups of critical WordPress configuration files are made before making changes and then stored in a directory on the server.  These backup can potentially contain your WordPress administrator or database password.  The source code for plugins, themes, and administrative functions are also stored in directories on the server.  None of these files are intended for public viewing.  Hackers can use directory listings to download these files and create a road map of how to exploit vulnerabilities in your site.  If they contain your WordPress administrator password, your entire site and all of your customer data is at risk.  To make this worse, hackers can scan these files with a script, on thousands of websites at a time, and hack your site or sell the information on the dark web.  Common identity theft programs may not scan for WordPress configuration passwords.  Turning off directory listings is absolutely critical for the security of your site.</p>


Directory Index Guard

Directory Index Guard is a small light weight plugin that prevents Apache webservers from showing directory listings, common called directory indexes.

Table of Contents Plus vs Directory Index Guard