Title: Search &amp; Index Page Content
Author: adaldesign
Published: <strong>January 22, 2014</strong>
Last modified: December 12, 2014

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Search plugins

![](https://ps.w.org/search-index-page-content/assets/banner-772x250.png?rev=843322)

This plugin **hasn’t been tested with the latest 3 major releases of WordPress**.
It may no longer be maintained or supported and may have compatibility issues when
used with more recent versions of WordPress.

![](https://ps.w.org/search-index-page-content/assets/icon-256x256.jpg?rev=979603)

# Search & Index Page Content

 By [adaldesign](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adaldesign/)

[Download](https://downloads.wordpress.org/plugin/search-index-page-content.zip)

 * [Details](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-index-page-content/#description)
 * [Reviews](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-index-page-content/#reviews)
 *  [Installation](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-index-page-content/#installation)
 * [Development](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-index-page-content/#developers)

 [Support](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-index-page-content/)

## Description

If you are looking for a simple way to **index the content of a long WordPress page
or post**, this plugin is your ticket.

Just like the “Content” quick-links on the right of every WordPress.org Codex page,
this widget will automatically create a list of links to each header in the content
of the pages you wish to index. You don’t need to create any anchor links for this
to work.

By default, it also includes an on-page search form so that users can easily find
anything on the page that is indexed.

The plugin is extremely light, unobtrusive and easy to use. It will only show up
on sidebars of pages in which you use the [SIPC_Content] shortcode. This plugin 
will load jquery on pages that use the shortcode if you theme doesn’t already.

[See a live demo here](http://test.adalclients.wpengine.com/sipc-demo/)

#### Suggested Uses

 * Create simple FAQ pages without complex use of Custom Post Types.
 * Make your long posts easier to reference.
 * Leave a review to tell me how YOU used this plugin.

#### Languages

Available in Spanish and Serbian.

## Screenshots

[⌊By default, the widget shows a contextual search form and index of headers on 
the page.⌉⌊By default, the widget shows a contextual search form and index of headers
on the page.⌉[

By default, the widget shows a contextual search form and index of headers on the
page.

[⌊View of the widget options.⌉⌊View of the widget options.⌉[

View of the widget options.

## Installation

 1. Upload the **search-index-page-content** folder to the **/wp-content/plugins/**
    directory, or simply find and install it in WordPress under Plugins > Add New
 2. Activate the **Search & Index Page Content** plugin on the **Plugins** page in 
    WordPress
 3. Slide the new **Search & Index Page Content** widget into a sidebar and pick your
    options.
 4. Edit the pages and posts you wish the widget to appear on by surrounding all their
    content with the **[SIPC_Content]** shortcode as such, and don’t forget to use 
    the closing tag **[/SIPC_Content]**

## FAQ

  I placed the widget in a sidebar but it won’t show up!

The widget is built to only show up on pages and posts for which the content has
been surrounded by the [SIPC_Content] opening and closing shortcode tags as seen
here:

  [SIPC_Content]

All page / post content goes here.
 Headers will be indexed and content will be 
searchable.

  [/SIPC_Content]

The reason being that you most likely only have a few pages or posts that are long
enough to deserve an index. Wouldn’t it be annoying if this widget showed up on 
every page and post, even short ones with no headers?

  How does this plugin work? I used to manually create anchor links…

The plugin basically uses jquery (javascript) to search the content surrounded by
the shortcode for headers and creates the links automatically each time the page
is loaded. This all happens after the page is loaded, on the client side. The benefits
are obvious: you no longer need to worry about updating anchor links manually, users
get to reference long pages easily and the server doesn’t do any extra work.

## Reviews

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/eacb925da020907ffd736da4127be20278eea9c1a4206f6b490f8e2fd7e7e503?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Much needed Plugin](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/much-needed-plugin-9/)󠁿

 [dhscratch](https://profiles.wordpress.org/dhscratch/) September 3, 2016

This is a great plugin, and much needed for those running site with lengthy post/
page content. The index generation is smart! But the ability to query a single page,
I feel, is the real value of this plugin. It would be significantly improved if 
it included the ability for user to see search results in linked list (like the 
index) and/or be able to jump through results on some kind of nav click. Really 
looking forward to future development of this project and possible shortcode option
for placement of index/search outside of widget!

![](https://secure.gravatar.com/avatar/9b1bbe1710484d9454b1c598cac62cf8e83abe73e2066d66ffe61877a142e64d?
s=60&d=retro&r=g)

### 󠀁[Works great](https://wordpress.org/support/topic/works-great-2408/)󠁿

 [atgdesign](https://profiles.wordpress.org/atgdesign/) September 3, 2016

Works great on a one page site with a very very long list of names and users will
want to find their name in the list. Works like a dream

 [ Read all 3 reviews ](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-index-page-content/reviews/)

## Contributors & Developers

“Search & Index Page Content” is open source software. The following people have
contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

 *   [ adaldesign ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adaldesign/)

[Translate “Search & Index Page Content” into your language.](https://translate.wordpress.org/projects/wp-plugins/search-index-page-content)

### Interested in development?

[Browse the code](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/browser/search-index-page-content/),
check out the [SVN repository](https://plugins.svn.wordpress.org/search-index-page-content/),
or subscribe to the [development log](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/search-index-page-content/)
by [RSS](https://plugins.trac.wordpress.org/log/search-index-page-content/?limit=100&mode=stop_on_copy&format=rss).

## Changelog

#### 1.4

 * Now includes translation in Spanish provided by Andrew Kurtis at http://WebHostingHub.
   com/

#### 1.3

 * Now includes translation in Serbian provided by Ogi Djuraskovic at http://FirstSiteGuide.
   com/

#### 1.2

 * Added Localization and .pot file to enable translations

#### 1.1

 * Bug fix of scrollTo

#### 1.0

 * Initial realease of the plugin
 * Currently uses widget only, shortcode will be included in next version.

## Meta

 *  Version **1.4**
 *  Last updated **12 years ago**
 *  Active installations **40+**
 *  WordPress version ** 3.6 or higher **
 *  Tested up to **4.0.38**
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 *  [Advanced View](https://wordpress.org/plugins/search-index-page-content/advanced/)

## Ratings

 5 out of 5 stars.

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## Contributors

 *   [ adaldesign ](https://profiles.wordpress.org/adaldesign/)

## Support

Got something to say? Need help?

 [View support forum](https://wordpress.org/support/plugin/search-index-page-content/)

## Donate

Would you like to support the advancement of this plugin?

 [ Donate to this plugin ](http://adaldesign.com/2014/01/search-index-page-content/)