How to Create a Table of Contents in WordPress?

A table of contents (TOC) is a valuable addition to your WordPress articles. It not only improves user experience by allowing readers to navigate lengthy content more easily but also enhances your site’s search engine optimization (SEO). The table of contents helps the visitors to navigate the long article easily and also helps in the SEO of the post. It makes your article more structured and beautiful for the users to understand each section of the article easily and they can jump to the particular sections if they want. 

In this article, we will see how to add a table of contents to a WordPress website using the plugin.

1. Enhanced User Experience: A well-structured TOC helps readers quickly find the information they’re looking for. Whether it’s a tutorial, guide, or in-depth article, a TOC ensures smooth navigation.
2. SEO Benefits: Google recognizes TOCs and often includes “jump to section” links in search results. Additionally, a well-organized TOC can help your post appear as a featured snippet, driving more organic traffic.

Let us see how to add the Table of Contents to the WordPress website by just using the plugin and following these steps.

Step 1: Firstly for adding the table of contents to the WordPress website you have to log in to your WordPress website.

Step 2: After login into the WordPress dashboard, you have to install the plugin named “Easy Table of Contents” to your website. for installing the plugin hover over the “Plugins” section and then click on add new.

Step 3: Search for the “Easy Table of Contents” in the search box and then click on the “Install Now” button.

Step 4: After installing the plugin, click on the “Activate” button on the WordPress website.

Step 5: The table of the content plugin is activated on your WordPress website. This plugin automatically adds the table of content to your WordPress website. Create a new post or it will automatically add the “Table of Content” to each post on your website.

Step 6: Click on the update button to update the post or click on the “Publish” button for publishing the new post.

After adding the table of content, your post will look like the following.

This is how you can add the table of content to your WordPress website and make it more user-friendly.