PlexBlocks – Table of Contents for Block Editor
Improving content structure is one of the easiest ways to keep readers engaged and boost your site’s search engine rankings. PlexBlocks – Table of Contents makes this effortless by automatically scanning your articles and generating a clean, nested index of your headings directly inside the block editor.
Unlike other plugins that require you to manually define HTML anchor IDs for every heading, this plugin dynamically creates safe, unique anchors for you on the fly. If you decide to add a custom anchor in the editor, the block respects your choice and links to it seamlessly.
Built specifically for the Gutenberg block editor, it features deep design settings, letting you style the block to look native to your theme. You can adjust colors, spacing, borders, box shadows, and choose between bulleted, numbered, or unstyled layouts.
For longer posts, you can enable sticky mode with custom offsets so the table of contents follows the reader as they scroll, highlighting the active section in real-time. On mobile devices, the block can optionally collapse into a neat, space-saving toggle.
Key Benefits & Features:
- Automated Anchor Generation: Automatically generates HTML anchor links for all core headings (H2, H3, H4) on the page. No manual configuration needed.
- Scroll Tracking & Highlights: Highlights the current heading in the table of contents as the user scrolls through the article, improving user navigation.
- Sticky Mode with Offset: Pins the table of contents to the screen on desktop displays. Includes a customizable top offset setting to prevent overlapping sticky headers.
- Mobile-Friendly Toggle: Collapses the list on mobile viewports (under 782px) into an expandable toggle button to preserve screen real estate.
- Deep Styling Controls: Customize background colors, border radius, borders, padding, shadows, font sizes, link gap sizes, and indent offsets from the block settings.
- Layout Styles: Choose between ordered (numbered), unordered (bulleted), or plain (unstyled) lists.
- Design Presets: Quickly apply preset layouts like ‘soft’ or ‘editorial’ for immediate styling.
- Performance Focused: Extremely lightweight with clean PHP and optimized JavaScript. No external database queries or heavy assets.
Developer Credits
This plugin was developed by ConicPlex, focusing on WordPress development. For custom Gutenberg block development, plugins, and professional WordPress services, visit ConicPlex.
Credits & 3rd Party Services
- ConicPlex.com: Developed and maintained by the ConicPlex team.
- Plugin Telemetry (Developer Insights): To improve this software, this plugin includes optional telemetry. Whenever the plugin is activated, deactivated, or uninstalled, an API request may be sent to ConicPlex to record the action. The data transmitted includes the action, site URL, admin email address, plugin version, plugin name, plugin text domain, WordPress version, site language, and site timezone. For more information, please read the ConicPlex Privacy Policy and Terms & Conditions.