UTS Sites Table of Contents

Description

A lightweight, zero-dependency Table of Contents plugin built to do one thing well: match your site exactly, automatically, without configuration.

UTS Sites Table of Contents scans your post/page content for headings (H2–H6, configurable) and builds a Table of Contents automatically, no manual editing needed.

SEO features

• Every heading gets a stable, unique, crawlable anchor id. Sections become directly linkable and can appear as “jump to” links in search results.
• The TOC is rendered as real server-side HTML inside the page. No JavaScript is required to see or follow it, so it’s fully readable by search engine crawlers.
• Wrapped in a semantic <nav> landmark with role="doc-toc" and a proper aria-label, plus aria-expanded / aria-controls on the toggle button for assistive technology.
• Optional JSON-LD ItemList structured data describing the page’s section structure (toggle in Settings → UTS TOC → SEO).
• Only loads its CSS/JS on singular pages that actually have a TOC. No unnecessary weight added to the rest of the site.

Note on E-E-A-T: Experience, Expertise, Authoritativeness and Trustworthiness are content-and-author quality signals that depend on what you write and who wrote it. No plugin can add E-E-A-T for you. This plugin focuses on the technical SEO and accessibility signals it can genuinely control.

Other features

• Font-family always matches your theme. Link/marker/border/background colors and per-level font sizes default to sensible, readable values and can be customized anytime in Settings → UTS TOC (Colors, Typography), with a one-click reset.
• Clean, modern box design: subtle border, soft shadow, accent bar on the title, dot markers for nested items, and native numbering when “numbered” mode is on.
• Per-post control via a meta box on every post/page editor:
  • Show TOC on this post: Use default setting / Always show / Never show (disable just for this one post)
  • Position on this post: Use default setting, or pick its own position independently of the global setting
  • Paragraph number override when using “After the Nth paragraph”
• Site-wide position options (Settings → UTS TOC):
  • Before the first heading
  • After the first heading
  • After the Nth paragraph (default: after the 2nd paragraph)
  • Before all content
  • After all content
  • Manually, anywhere, using the [uts_toc] shortcode
• Optional collapsible box, numbered/bulleted list, smooth scrolling.

Also by UTS Sites

If this plugin was useful, you might also like another plugin from the same developer:

• UTSSites Auto FAQ Schema: https://wordpress.org/plugins/utssites-auto-faq-schema/

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