In-page/post Table of Contents

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    tao88h · Member ·

    While editing a wikia.com post, I learned that the website automatically creates a Table of Contents at the top of the page upon creating text in a Heading style (i.e. Heading 1, Heading 2, Heading 3, so on…). The end result is a clickable table of contents that zips the user straight to the area on the page referenced by the Heading title in the Table of Contents. This is so easy and effective as to induce giddiness. So I was surprised when editing my blog here at WordPress.com, that the same formula does not apply when editing text with the Heading style feature. Here is an example of what I am trying to replicate -http://trojanwar.wikia.com/wiki/Trojan_War_Wiki

    Currently, the page in question that I’m trying to create a table of contents on has a box I created within holds links to other pages in my blog, but not to the contents of the page. If I could eliminate linking to outside pages, that same giddiness I once felt just might return in earnest.

    Questions
    Am I expecting something that is not actually a feature on wordpress.com?
    Or, If it is a feature available to wordpress.com users, how can I achieve a similar Table of Contents box like the one aforementioned in the wikia.com example?

    My wordpress.com blog http://taoartwork.com/music

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

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    thesacredpath · Member ·

    Blogs aren’t wikis. Blogs typically have posts that are 200 to 500 or possibly 750 words, so there is little need for a table of contents. Wikis and blogs are for two different purposes and the number of bloggers that would actually benefit from this would be rather small.

    You can manually create a table of contents here using page jumps, which is really what the wikis do.

    http://en.support.wordpress.com/splitting-content/page-jumps/

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