CM Table Of Contents – Clear navigation for better content discovery

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How often this plugin actually ships. A steady rhythm is the maintenance signal a single "last updated" date can't show.

Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 71% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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1. ★★★★★ nhoj

   6.3y ago

   I bought the pro version of the plugin and within an hour I realized I couldn’t use it most likely because of a conflict of another plugin. Asked for my money back instantly (they claim to believe in their products so much that they offer Money Back Guarantee) but as it turns out, that’s actually not the case. They only offer you your money back if you give them access to your website and they determine whether or not the plugin works. They asked me for the exact plugin that’s causing the conflict but I couldn’t really inspect that properly in an hour from when I bought the plugin until I contacted them. I have a sneaky suspicion of what it is but in all honesty that shouldn’t matter. I have been using WordPress since the very beginning and in that time I’ve bought A LOT of premium plugins and themes and it has happened on occasions that something doesn’t work together. In all other instances have I just got my money back – no questions asked. This isn’t really a review about the plugin itself which I’m sure works fine for most but their customer service, the deceptive Money-Back Guarantee and their unwillingness to budge from their somewhat hidden terms, which by the way are not a law of nature. You can choose to offer a good service regardless.

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2. ★★★★★ belbernard

   6.6y ago

   It works great in general. However on a couple of posts it stops the display of all images when it is set on… I haven’t found the code combination that produces this bug.

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3. ★★★★★ David Elstob

   6.7y ago

   Works straight out of the box – just install and click on the tickbox bottom of each page. Don’t even need to bother with the shortcode unless you want to move the table. Definitely recommend this plugin. Don’t just move on because it hasn’t got five stars either!

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4. ★★★★★ stigzler

   7.1y ago

   as with every other tinpot capitalising WP plugin author, this draws you in with good spiel only to learn that it’s highly limited in the free version. Honestly, people like this are draining the life out of the internet dollar by dollar.

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5. ★★★★★ Anonymous

   7.3y ago

   I installed CM Table of Contents on my website, hoping that it would display TOCs of my 900+ page (when printed to a PDF) documentation. I was very pleasantly surprised with the ease of installation, setup, and production-ready Tables of Content on my site. When I discovered a Bug in the hierarchical numbering scheme, the developers had a fix prepared in 4 days. When I submitted a Feature Request for a different parent/child TOC sorting method, the developers responded with an enhancement the following week. Support doesn’t get much better than this! -larry

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6. ★★★★★ alessandronicotra

   8.1y ago

   Non ho potuto eliminare questo plugin senza agire sul filesytem del server in FTP

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7. ★★★★★ Coptic-Treasures

   10.2y ago

   The best table of content WordPress Plugin. Extremely highly custmizable. The only one that recognizes pagination. Also, the technical support team is very efficient and knowlegable. After researching for months, CM table of contents plugin was the solution. I highly recommend it to anyone who has complicated post structure or long posts and wants a perfect table of contents plugin.

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8. ★★★★★ jejones8

   10.2y ago

   I was looking for a table of contents plugin that was smart enough to accommodate a variety of knowledge base style posts and this one fit the bill. There were a few technical glitches in the first try but the support team was exceptionally responsive and listened and acted very quickly to my needs. In addition to the basic functionality, it also provides great styling options and the ability to be used in the body of the text as well as in widget areas. I would recommend going for the premium version as it offers more functionality for a reasonable price.

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2 disclosed vulnerabilities on record for this plugin, all fixed in the current version. Sites on older versions stay exposed until they update.

1. Medium · 4.3 CM Table Of Contents <= 1.2.3 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2024-10-31 CVE-2024-5029 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.2.3 Patched in 1.2.4
2. Medium · 4.3 CM Table Of Contents <= 1.2.2 - Cross-Site Request Forgery ↗
   2024-10-28 CVE-2024-5030 Cross-Site Request Forgery (CSRF) Affects <= 1.2.2 Patched in 1.2.3

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 7.0.1

Translated into 1 language, 0 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

Install-tier crossings we have observed, and how long each tier took to outgrow

1. 2026-05-08 200+ → 100+ down after 184 days in tier
2. 2025-11-05 300+ → 200+ down after 242 days in tier
3. 2025-03-08 400+ → 300+ down after 1 days in tier
4. 2025-03-07 300+ → 400+ up after 4 days in tier
5. 2025-03-03 400+ → 300+ down after 243 days in tier
6. 2024-07-03 500+ → 400+ down after 3 days in tier
7. 2024-06-30 400+ → 500+ up after 1 days in tier
8. 2024-06-29 500+ → 400+ down after 239 days in tier

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• LuckyWP Table of Contents 100K+ installs · 4.9★ · 3 shared tags B
• Rich Table of Contents 20K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags C
• Joli Table Of Contents 7K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• Heroic Table of Contents 5K+ installs · 4.2★ · 3 shared tags B
• F70 Simple Table of Contents 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B
• Easy Table of Contents 600K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags A

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CM Table Of Contents – Clear navigation for better content discovery: 100+ active installs, 3.3★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-31. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/cm-table-of-content