Anik Smart Table of Contents

Anik Smart Table of Contents is the ultimate lightweight, SEO-friendly Table of Contents plugin for WordPress. It automatically generates a beautiful, clickable TOC from your post and page headings — helping visitors navigate long-form content effortlessly while boosting your site’s SEO with structured, crawlable anchor links.

🚀 Upgrade to Smart TOC Pro for Sticky TOC, Reading Progress Bar, Gutenberg Block, and more!

🎯 Perfect For

• Bloggers with long-form content
• Documentation & knowledge base sites
• Tutorial and how-to websites
• News and magazine publishers
• Educational platforms & online courses
• Any WordPress site with lengthy articles

✨ Free Features

• Automatic TOC Generation – Instantly creates a table of contents from your H2-H6 headings
• Smooth Scrolling – Elegant smooth scroll animation when clicking TOC links
• Collapsible TOC – Visitors can expand/collapse the table of contents
• Active Heading Highlight – Highlights the current section as users scroll
• Shortcode Support – Use [aniksmta_toc] to place TOC anywhere in your content
• Customizable Heading Levels – Choose which headings to include (H2-H6)
• Counter Formats – Choose decimal numbers, Roman numerals, or no counters
• Theme Presets – Light, Dark, and Minimal theme presets plus default style
• Theme Color Picker – Match your site’s branding with custom accent color
• SEO Schema Markup – SiteNavigation JSON-LD structured data for search engines
• SEO Optimized – Clean HTML markup with proper anchor links for search engines
• Ultra Lightweight – Under 15KB, zero jQuery dependency
• Translation Ready – Fully internationalized with POT file included
• Per-Post Control – Enable/disable TOC for individual posts or pages
• Per-Post Heading Override – Override global heading levels on individual posts
• Global Heading Exclusion – Exclude headings by text across the entire site
• Exclude Headings by CSS Class – Skip specific headings using the no-toc class
• Multiple Positions – Before content, after first paragraph, or manual placement
• Dashboard Widget – Quick TOC stats and access from your WordPress dashboard

Take your table of contents to the next level with Smart TOC Pro:

• 📌 Sticky/Floating TOC – Always-visible TOC that follows users as they scroll
• 📊 Reading Progress Bar – Visual indicator showing reading progress
• ⏱️ Estimated Reading Time – Display how long it takes to read the article
• ⬆️ Back to Top Button – Quick scroll-to-top functionality
• ⌨️ Keyboard Navigation – Navigate TOC with keyboard shortcuts
• 💻 Custom CSS Support – Full styling control with custom CSS
• 📱 Mobile-Specific Options – Optimized settings for mobile devices
• 🔢 Hierarchical Numbering – Advanced numbering like 1.1, 1.2, 2.1…
• 🧱 Gutenberg Block – Native block editor support
• 📦 Sidebar Widget – Display TOC in any widget area
• 🔒 Priority Support – Fast, dedicated customer support

👉 Get Smart TOC Pro Now

How It Works

1. Install and activate the plugin
2. Configure settings under Settings → Anik Smart TOC
3. The TOC automatically appears on your posts and pages
4. Or use [aniksmta_toc] shortcode for manual placement

Shortcode Usage

Basic usage:
[aniksmta_toc]

With custom title:
[aniksmta_toc title=”In This Article”]

Collapsed by default:
[aniksmta_toc collapsed=”true”]

🐛 Bug Reports

Found a bug? Please report it on our GitHub Issues page.

💬 Support & Help

• Documentation: Anik Smart Table of Contents Documentation
• Support Forum: WordPress.org Support
• Contact: Contact
• Pro Support: Priority Support for Pro Users

🗺️ Roadmap

We’re constantly improving Smart TOC! Upcoming features:

• Additional shortcode attributes
• Advanced styling options
• Performance optimizations
• More counter format options

Have a feature request? Submit it on GitHub!