Add an index to your articles WordPress no sólo hará que tus post se vean mejor. En este tutorial de CourseWpress.com we teach you how to add one.
Why add an index to your WordPress articles?
En internet el contents es el rey por eso si eres blogger deseas compartir la as much content as possible.
Apart from this, if you are a navigator you want the information chewed, digested and at hand.
In this way it is very likely that if you come across a long post por útil que be, si tiene mucho material antes de encontrar lo que te interesa es posible que acabes abandonándolo.
Benefits of adding an index to your WordPress articles
Well, among the benefits of adding an index or a table of contents to your articles of WordPress it is that you make it easy for your visitors to read.
Sí, así quien visita tu Blog no tiene que leer o escanear todo un post para encontrar algo muy puntual que necesita.
This from the point of view of user experience.
De cara al SEO already Google añadir índices al mismo tiempo representa sus ventajas.
What is needed to add tables of contents?
We take for granted that you have an active blog running on the best content manager in the world… Yes, WordPress.
Well apart you will need:
- Plugin: We will use the easy table of contents
- Content. Text on your pages or articles with potential.
What do we mean by content with potential?
To quality texts with a correct structure of H2, H3 (and because not some H4) formatted.
Why are H2, H3 and H etc needed?
Because apart from the Titles and subtitles are useful (essential) to facilitate reading as they order the content. Not to mention the push at the SEO level. They are the basis of any index or table of contents.
Yes, if there is no logical and substantial subtitle structure (h2, h3, h4…) there can be no table of contents.
How to add an index or table of contents in WordPress
To add an index or Table of Contents to our articles and pages in WordPres there are many methods. The most used by most of the bloggers referents is through plugins.
Why use plugin?
Because it is easy and fast. And we don't want to spend hours and hours elbowing when we have so much to do.
So once we have our content with your correct subtitle structure we get down to work.
Easy table of contents
Easy table of contents has been for some years the definitive tool for many bloggers when it comes to adding an index or table of contents to their pages or articles in WordPress.
It is a plugin that receives regular updates* and which has more than 20,000 active installations, which attest to its effectiveness.
* To date it is the table of contents plugin that is constantly updated by the developers.
Add an index with Easy table of contents
To add a table of contents with Easy table of contents the first thing we have to do is install it.
Once installed and activated a new one will appear eyelash in the section of settings of our WordPress dashboard.
Settings> table of contents
We follow the previous route and configure our plugin.
Setting Easy table of contents
To the options that the ETOC brings by default, the only thing we have to change to make it work, is the following:
In Enable Support we will activate the following options:
And in Auto Insert we will check the option post. With that we will tell the plugin that we want to automatically insert a table of contents in our articles.
At the same time we can choose the position in which the index will be inserted with position.
At the same time we choose the name that we want our table of contents to show.
Remember in the option Headings tildar todos las Hs que te aparecen (del H1 al H6).
That is in case you want all your subtitles to appear in the index. The idea is to place the ones you need.
Adding an index with Easy table of contents
Once you have your ETOC configured and your content with their respective subtitles formatted (in Word or the word processor of our preference).
We proceed to create our index.
We're going to:
Entry> Add new
- We paste our content.
- We edit in the usual way
- We publish
- And voila: we will find that our article now has a table of contents.
Conclusions
The tables of contents le pueden cambiar la cara a tus artículos, páginas y contenidos. A la vez de darte más potencial en el apartado de experiencia de Username y SEO.
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