SimpleTOC – Table of Contents Block vs VidSEO – Video transcript embedding for WordPress & LLM

Add a Table of Contents block to your posts and pages. The TOC is a nested list of links to all heading found in the post or page. To use it, simply add a block and search for “SimpleTOC” or just “TOC”. The maximum depth of the toc can be configured in in the blocks’ sidebar among many other options. There can hide the headline “Table of Contents” and add your own by using a normal heading block. Spin up a new WordPress instance with the SimpleTOC plugin already installed. User Feedback “It is lightweight, stable, and fully compatible with WordPress Full Site Editing. A reliable solution that integrates seamlessly and performs exactly as expected.” — @js100 on wordpress.org “Does the job perfectly, and adds no bloat.” — @clicknathan on wordpress.org “Simple yet powerful. Great plugin that does exactly what you need.” — @mixey on wordpress.org Accessibility This plugin is designed & developed for WCAG 2.2 level AA conformance. The plugin is tested with assistive technology and intended to be accessible, however some third party plugins or themes may affect the individual accessibility on a given website. If you find an accessibility issue, please let us know and we’ll try to address it promptly. Hidden TOCs use native and semantics without extra ARIA references that require custom IDs. Features Designed for Gutenberg. Zero configuration: Add the SimpleTOC block to your post and that’s it. Minimal and valid HTML output. Utilizes the browser’s built-in details tag for a collapsible interface. No JavaScript or CSS by default. Optional features such as the accordion menu, smooth scrolling, or box style add minimal assets only when enabled. Optional Box style in Gutenberg’s Styles tab with a default gray background. Native text, link, background, spacing, and typography controls. Global block styling through theme.json. Inherits the style of your theme. Smooth scrolling effect using CSS. Accessibility built-in by following web standards. Standard Gutenberg block wrapper with navigation role and ARIA label attributes. Translated in multiple languages. Including German, Japanese, Chinese (Taiwan), Dutch, Brazilian Portuguese, French, Spanish and Latvia. Ideal for creating a Frequently Asked Questions section on your website. Customization Administrators can utilize global settings to supersede the individual block settings. Set text, link, and background colors in Gutenberg’s Styles tab. Native block support for wide and full width. Set vertical margins and padding with native spacing controls. Control the maximum depth of the headings. Choose between an ordered, bullet HTML list. Or indent the list. Select the Box style directly in Gutenberg’s Styles tab. Select a heading level or turn it into a paragraph. Disable the h2 heading of the TOC block and add your own. Compatibility GeneratePress and Rank Math support. Works with popular AMP plugins. How to contribute SimpleTOC is open-source and developed on GitHub Pages. If you find a bug or have an idea for a feature please feel free to contribute and create a pull request. Credits Many thanks to Tom J Nowell and and Sally CJ who both helped me a lot with my questions over at wordpress.stackexchange.com And many more thanks to all the developers on GitHub who helped me making SimpleTOC what it is today! Thanks to Quintus Valerius Soranus for inventing the Table of Contents around 100 BC.

VidSEO is a WordPress plugin designed to solve a common and often overlooked problem: valuable information explained in videos is largely invisible to machines. Videos are excellent for human visitors, but search engines, screen readers, and modern answer engines still rely primarily on text to understand what a page contains. When important explanations live only in audio or video form, machines are forced to approximate or ignore that content. VidSEO addresses this limitation by exposing video transcripts as native HTML text directly embedded in the page, alongside the video itself. This allows machines to read what is said in the video without guessing. VidSEO does not generate content. VidSEO does not summarize or rewrite transcripts. VidSEO does not infer missing information. Its role is exposure, not interpretation. A precise, machine-first definition of VidSEO and its scope is available here: https://vidseo.dev Why transcripts still matter Despite major advances in search and AI systems, video content remains fundamentally opaque without an explicit text surface. Search engines may detect that a video exists, but they rely on surrounding text to understand its meaning. Language models face the same constraint: without readable text, they must infer what a video contains. By rendering transcripts as clean HTML, VidSEO ensures that: – the meaning expressed in the video is explicitly available, – long explanations delivered in video form are preserved as text, – machines do not need to extrapolate or hallucinate. Industry context This limitation is now widely acknowledged across the industry. In its January 2026 guide on AEO and GEO, Microsoft highlights the importance of exposing readable text surfaces alongside video content so answer engines and AI systems can reliably extract meaning. From Discovery to Influence: A Guide to AEO and GEO VidSEO provides a concrete WordPress implementation aligned with this principle. What VidSEO allows you to do With VidSEO, you can: Embed YouTube or Vimeo videos using a simple shortcode Retrieve existing YouTube subtitles automatically (when available) Associate each video with a full text transcript Display the transcript as clean HTML inside the page Structure transcripts with headings, paragraphs and links (PRO) Hide the transcript visually while keeping it readable in the source code Keep full editorial control over the transcript content Common situations where VidSEO is useful VidSEO is often used when: Important information is explained mainly in video form Videos contain long explanations, tutorials, interviews or talks You want search engines to understand what is said in your videos Accessibility requires a text alternative to audiovisual content You want to reuse existing video subtitles as readable page content Example A tutorial video explains a complex process in several minutes. With VidSEO, the full explanation becomes readable text on the same page. Search engines and answer engines can now understand what is explained, even if the visitor never plays the video. How it works VidSEO adds a dedicated content type to WordPress. For each video, you: – choose the video platform (YouTube or Vimeo), – paste the video URL, – retrieve existing YouTube subtitles automatically (when available) or add a transcript manually, – optionally format the transcript using standard HTML, – insert the generated shortcode anywhere on your site. The transcript is rendered as standard HTML directly in the page, without external files, iframes, or API dependencies. About the publisher VidSEO is developed by Pagup, a digital readability firm based in Quebec, Canada. Video content is increasingly consumed and summarized by AI systems. Without structured video metadata (VideoObject schema, proper titles, descriptions, and thumbnail references), your videos are invisible to the machine reading layer. VidSEO ensures that your video content is described in a structured format that search engines and AI systems can parse, index, and cite. Part of the Pagup ecosystem pagup.com — Digital readability firm. Diagnostic, semantic architecture, AI governance. gautierdorval.com — Doctrine, canonical definitions, interpretive governance research. interpretive-governance.org — Formal versioned standard for interpretive governance. vidseo.dev — Documentation and resources for VidSEO. Technical references VidSEO outputs transcripts as native HTML within the page DOM. No external files. No API dependencies. No inference layer. Canonical definition and scope: https://vidseo.dev Interpretability reference: https://github.com/GautierDorval/vidseo-video-llm-interpretability Who develops VidSEO? VidSEO is developed by Pagup, a digital readability firm based in Quebec, Canada. Pagup specializes in semantic architecture, interpretive SEO, and AI governance. Why does video structured data matter for AI systems? AI systems rely on structured data to understand what a video contains, who produced it, and how it relates to the page it appears on. Without VideoObject schema markup, your video is just an embedded iframe — the system cannot extract its title, description, duration, or thumbnail. This means your video content does not contribute to your site’s overall digital readability and cannot be cited in AI-generated answers. What is digital readability? Digital readability is the capacity of a website to be correctly understood by all four reading layers: humans, search engines, generative AI systems, and autonomous agents. Learn more at pagup.com.