Hackdalic's Table Of Contents Box Plugin -- is a Yes!
My site will have quite a few long technical articles (in MS Word, with images, they are 20 - 30 or more pages long and that is after breaking them up into logical sub-subjects)
Even paired down these are too long, in my opinion, to have my readers scanning downward and downward and ... Part of the solution was to use the <!--nextpage--> tag ... judiciously. The other part was to find a good working TOC that I could add to each post so the reader could jump to any header in the doc desired. After a fair amount of research and experimenting, I chose Hackadelic's. I did so, in part, because after installing it, it both worked was very presentable out of the box and was customizable. The other reason was because I can pair it up with the nextpage tag (the toc tag can go after it) so that you have a TOC on each page of a multi-page Post. This was critical. The reader can be on page 4, click on a heading link in the TOC and be back on Page 2 instantly. :) I won't go into all the details here, you can read them for yourself. However, a few tips are in order as some of the install and usage instructions were a little unclear. In the Plugin Management Page:
On his site you will find a CSS Template file with default, workable, style settings. This must be downloaded and inserted into ATO --> HTML/CSS Inserts --> CSS Inserts. You drop it in, it works as is, then tweak to taste. By the way, Flynn assured me there is plenty of room for it as the CSS Inserts are stored in the database. Aside from changing the colors to match my theme colors, I added a couple of mods to his CSS template that you may or may not have use for: 1. I added hover logic for the unordered list in the body of the TOC: Code:
/* added hover logic */ Code:
/* added fifth level */ |
Nice write-up!
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Thank you, Juggledad.
I figure with all the help I've gotten on this forum, it is only fair to give some back. :) |
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