Adding Table of Content on Blog Post
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Hello.
I am using a free blog from WordPress (still contemplating purchasing domain). I wanted to add a Table of Contents to my blog post but there doesn’t seem to be an Insert – Table of Contents like on for instance, google sites.
How do I do so?
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You can assign categories to posts, create a custom menu and include links to dynamic category pages in it.
This is a one or the other situation. You have two choices on any blog
(1) All posts on the front page.
(2) Or a static front page http://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/front-page/ and all posts on a different page.By default the front page of a blog displays all published posts in reverse chronological order with the most recently published post on top. When we publish a post on WordPress software the software automatically creates the same entry in the Archives, and on the dynamic (automatically updating) Categories and Tags pages in accord with the Categories and Tags we assign to that post.
So when we create custom menu and add the dynamic (automatically updating) category pages to that custom menu we create the appearance (not the reality) of posting to more than one page.
You need to be aware that:
1. There are differences between posts and pages described here
https://en.support.wordpress.com/post-vs-page/2. There are differences between static pages we bloggers create https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ that will not automatically update, and dynamic category pages created by the software when you publish a post which will automatically update https://en.support.wordpress.com/category-pages/.
3. We organize posts by category assignment prior to publication. http://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories/ and when we publish posts the dynamic category pages they automatically display on are determined by the categories we assign to them.
So the process you need to use is:
a. Assign Categories to your Posts. https://en.support.wordpress.com/posts/categories
b. Create a custom menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/#1-create-a-custom-menu
c. Add only the dynamic category page links into the custom menu that you want to appear in that menu https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-category-pages and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menus
d. Create pages and sub-pages for static content, not for posts https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/
e. Add any custom links and other items like static pages and sub-pages into your custom menu
https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-custom-links https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#adding-pages
and arrange them as you wish them to appear https://en.support.wordpress.com/menus/view-all/#changing-the-order-creating-sub-menusPlease see https://en.support.wordpress.com/customizer/
Note your detailed theme description page at https://wordpress.com/themes/twentyfourteen/ with set-up instructions and the live demo site at https://twentyfourteendemo.wordpress.com/ too, please.
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You can create a Pagehttps://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and use the Archives shortcode on it https://en.support.wordpress.com/archives-shortcode/, like I did here https://onecoolsite.wordpress.com/sitemap/
If you assign tags or categories to your posts, then you can create a Page https://en.support.wordpress.com/pages/ and use you the display posts shortcode to display up to 100 posts on it. https://en.support.wordpress.com/display-posts-shortcode/
See also Create a Site Index http://en.support.wordpress.com/sitemaps/#create-a-site-index
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The categories are really helpful but not quite what I’m looking for.
Google Sites for instance has the ability to add a Table of Contents within a blog post. If the blog post is an essay describing the three literary devices, we would give each name as a Header. Then we make a Table of Contents – when you click on one item (name of one of the literary devices assigned as a Header 2,3, or 4), the page will bring you down to that section. It doesn’t navigate you to a new page.
For example:
https://sites.google.com/site/citricstuff/lc
You see how the Contents part navigates you to its corresponding section?Another example:
http://www.essentialmana.com/season-4-achievements/
This one looks like WordPress but I’m not sure. Their table of contents is a navigator as well, not a redirect to new page. -
You can create links in any post or page to other posts and pages in your site. See the guide for creating links in posts and pages: http://en.support.wordpress.com/links/
You can also create a custom menu.
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