Heroic Table of Contents

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 98% 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. ★★★★★ TraceMyIP

   1.2y ago

   This is a breath of fresh air and feels actively maintained and loved. The automatic heading detection works like magic, and having 4 built-in styles saves tons of design time. Really appreciate being able to hide/relabel headings without touching the original content – that’s smart! The expand/collapse feature is perfect for long posts. While it’s still growing (6k installs), the recent updates and stellar reviews suggest HeroThemes is committed to making this a winner.

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2. ★★★★★ recensionivere

   3.9y ago

   Index created in seconds with extreme ease.

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3. ★★★★★ testwp75

   4.5y ago

   i don’t know why my review has been delete, but this is a very bad plugin actually

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4. ★★★★★ kamcza

   4.6y ago

   Wonderful block for Gutenberg.

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5. ★★★★★ Hans-Gerd Gerhards

   5.1y ago

   a great, lightweight plugin that we use on some websites and does what it’s supposed to do without any problems. Thanks a lot. This topic was modified 4 years, 11 months ago by Hans-Gerd Gerhards.

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6. ★★★★★ skillsharejp

   5.3y ago

   I needed a Gutenberg friendly TOC plugin for my elearning site, and this is working almost perfectly. One more feature I need is, support for multiple pages using WP’s page break feature. Designs are way better than TOC+ and other major TOC plugins. This topic was modified 5 years, 2 months ago by skillsharejp.

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7. ★★★★★ Injabie3

   5.5y ago

   Works as intended if a blog post is a single page. If it’s split across multiple pages, the anchors on subsequent pages don’t work because they expect them all to be in the same page as opposed to a single page.

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8. ★★★★★ Deborah Edwards-Onoro

   5.5y ago

   For my academic client, I needed to find an easy-to-use and customizable table of contents plugin with automatic table of contents creation based on headings. Heroic Table of Contents worked wonderfully, allowing me to quickly add a TOC and customize the layout. I love that the plugin automatically updates the TOC when the headings change.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. — Version 1.2.7 (7 Jan 2026) (Fixed) Customizer compatibility with certain third party themes – ToC JavaScript skipped in Customizer while CSS remains for proper styling 1.2.7
2. — Version 1.2.6 (17 Nov 2025) (Fixed) Table of Contents submenus now automatically collapse and expand based on scroll position in post mode (Fixed) Scan levels (heading selection H1-H6) now work correctly on the frontend – headings are 1.2.6
3. — Version 1.2.5 (26 Oct 2025) (Fixed) Table of Contents now displays correctly on your live site without editor buttons or preview content showing (Fixed) Text size in the Table of Contents now appears correctly on the frontend (Fixed) 1.2.5
4. — Version 1.2.4 (16 Oct 2025) (Fixed) Site editor preview mode now correctly displays sample content for post templates (Fixed) Console warning about CSS being added to iframe incorrectly (Improved) Post support with Update Font Size 1.2.4
5. — Version 1.2.3 (5 Jun 2025) (Improved) Post support with sticky Table of Contents (Updated) Improvements and testing for WordPress 6.8 1.2.3
6. — Version 1.2.2 (22 May 2024) (Improved) Tweaks and compatibility checking for WordPress 6.5 1.2.2

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

Translated into 7 languages, 5 at 90% or more

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-01-28 6K+ → 5K+ down after 18 days in tier
2. 2026-01-10 5K+ → 6K+ up after 1 days in tier
3. 2026-01-09 6K+ → 5K+ down after 1071 days in tier
4. 2023-02-03 5K+ → 6K+ up

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★ · 4 shared tags B
• Table of Contents Plus – Automatic Table of Contents for Posts & Pages 200K+ installs · 4.4★ · 3 shared tags A
• Rich Table of Contents 20K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags C
• Table Of Contents Block 10K+ installs · 4.0★ · 3 shared tags B
• Joli Table Of Contents 7K+ installs · 4.7★ · 3 shared tags A
• F70 Simple Table of Contents 100+ installs · 4.1★ · 3 shared tags B

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Heroic Table of Contents: 5K+ active installs, 4.7★ (9 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-28. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/heroic-table-of-contents