To Create a Table of Contents in WordPress.com without a plugin

  • visionp · Member ·

    I would like to Create a Table of Contents in WordPress.com without a plugin. See example in my old website http://specialasianfood.com – click View Menu in Home page and it will show this page Recipes Titles.

    Anyone who knows an easy way can give me the steps to do it.
    I will appreciate any kind assistance. Thank you.

    Sophia Lim
    The blog I need help with is http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com

    The blog I need help with is: (visible only to logged in users)

  • musicdoc1 · Member ·

    The format used in the tables on the old site is fine. Copy and paste one of the tables from the old website into a page of the new site, then modify the dimensions, page numbers, titles, etc., as needed.

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi musicdoc1

    Nice to hear from you again your email of 3 July 2015.

    Q1. I copy and paste The Asian Chinese Cookbook under Recipes Titles but it is too long in one page. How would I know the length of the page and break into another page?

    Q2. How do I edit Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal and The Oriental Cookbook under Recipes Titles so that viewers can find – I click Pages>Add New but cannot be found under Recipes Titles.

    I would appreciate your kind assistance again.

    Sophia Lim

  • musicdoc1 · Member ·

    Hi, visionp

    Q1. How would I know the length of the page and break into another page?

    I’m unaware of a limit to the length of a page. The proper length of a page of the table of contents will be for you to decide. To break a long page up into multiple pages, you may use the NextPage tag.

    Q2. How do I edit Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal and The Oriental Cookbook under Recipes Titles so that viewers can find – I click Pages>Add New but cannot be found under Recipes Titles.

    Your website is private, and as a volunteer I can not view the site. I thought you were being helped by staff in a previous topic regarding the menu questions.

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi musicdoc1

    Where are you? You seems to be very near to Singapore. Please type my website: http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com in your browser and you will be able to see my pages.

    I refer to :
    Q1. Click WordPress – Admin>Pages>Recipes Titles>The Asian Chinese Cookbook and scroll down to No 26 onwards to the end to go to next page and where do I type <!–nextpage–> and follow-up steps.

    Thank you for your assistance and reply.

    Sophia Lim

  • musicdoc1 · Member ·

    Hi, visionp

    Where are you? You seems to be very near to Singapore.

    Singapore is near to my heart, but very far to my wings. : )

    Nevertheless, I assure you that the site is marked private, at Settings > Reading (https://specialasianfood.wordpress.com/wp-admin/options-reading.php), and therefore I can not view it.

    I’ll tag the topic for staff attention. Please wait for a response by staff.

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi musicdoc1

    Are you one of the staff?

    Sorry you just go to the Forums where you see
    WordPress.com Forums>>Support on top and you see
    To Create a Table of Contents in WordPress.com without a Plugin
    You see under Sophia Lim
    The blog I need help is http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com – please click this and you should be able to see my site and reply.

    Sophia Lim

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi musicdoc1

    I am very sorry as my computer has problems since 4 July but is now rectified, I refer to :
    Q1. Click WordPress – Admin>Pages>Recipes Titles>The Asian Chinese Cookbook and scroll down to No 26 onwards to the end to go to next page and where do I type <!–nextpage–> and follow-up steps and also the Recipes Titles for Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal and The Oriental Cookbook – refer my email 4 July

    I am going to invite you to see my website in wordpress/admin – please give me your username or email so that I can send you the invitation from Settings>Reading. Is your username musicdoc1?
    What shall I name you as Viewer or Editor? You can also give me the steps to do it.

    Thank you for your attention and reply.

    Sophia Lim

  • musicdoc1 · Member ·

    Hi Sophia,

    I am very sorry as my computer has problems since 4 July but is now rectified

    No worries.

    Are you one of the staff?

    No. I thought I’d tagged the topic for staff attention. Perhaps I forgot to. It’s got the “modlook” tag now, which will call for staff attention. Please wait for staff to respond.

    I am going to invite you to see my website in wordpress/admin – please give me your username or email so that I can send you the invitation from Settings>Reading. Is your username musicdoc1?

    Yes, my username is musicdoc1.

    To Create a Table of Contents in WordPress.com without a Plugin
    You see under Sophia Lim

    In your most recent post in your topic “How to use the Widgets,” I find

    Q1. I saw WordPress How to Create Table of Contents by using Plugin http://www.wpbeginner.com>log>WordPress Plugin. How can I use this?

    The short answer is that you can not add any plugins to a WordPress.com website.

  • brookedot · Staff ·

    Hi Sophia,

    I have taken a look at your site and I am able to see your table of contents containing 53 sections.

    If you want to break this up a bit you can go into text mode and enter
    ‘<!–nextpage–>’

    If you’re still having trouble let us know and we’ll take another look.

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi bdukes

    Thank you for your reply dated 10 July 2015

    musicdoc1 says:
    Q1. How would I know the length of the page and break into another page?

    I’m unaware of a limit to the length of a page. The proper length of a page of the table of contents will be for you to decide. To break a long page up into multiple pages, you may use the NextPage tag.

    visionp says:
    Q1. The Asian Chinese Cookbook has 53 Nos I want to break at No.27 to go next page – how do I do it – I edit Add New Page <!–nextpage–> in Text but cannot work.

    Q2. How do I edit Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal and The Oriental Cookbook under Recipes Titles so that viewers can find – I click Pages>Add New but cannot be found under Recipes Titles.

    musicdoc1 says: Your website is private, and as a volunteer I can not view the site. I thought you were being helped by staff in a previous topic regarding the menu questions.

    Please give me the steps to edit as requested so that the 3 cookbooks Recipes Titles can be viewed. I also have to link to each cookbook

    Thanks for your attention and reply

    Sophia Lim

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  • brookedot · Staff ·

    Hi Sophia,

    Q1. The Asian Chinese Cookbook has 53 Nos I want to break at No.27 to go next page – how do I do it – I edit Add New Page <!–nextpage–> in Text but cannot work.

    To use the <!–nextpage–> code after no 27 you will need to use two tables instead of just one. Once this is done your code will look like this:

    <table> 
//code here for tr/td for items 1-27
</table>
<!--nextpage-->
<table>
//code here for items 27-53
</table>

    Here is our HTML guide to adding tables in WordPress.com
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/advanced-html/

    If you would like to use a table generator instead you may try one like is found here:
    http://www.tablesgenerator.com/html_tables

    Q2. How do I edit Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal and The Oriental Cookbook under Recipes Titles so that viewers can find – I click Pages>Add New but cannot be found under Recipes Titles.

    Currently these Items are added to the sidebar using a Text Widget. Could you clarify what you mean by “So people can find them” Are they products you are trying to link to in a store? If so see this help guide on linking from text widget:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/text-widget-links/

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi bdukes

    Thank you very much for your email of 11 July 2015. I refer to
    questions in my email.

    Q1. I cannot do the nextpage as indicated by you. Kindly do for me as you can view at my site in http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com
    I have copied and paste Table of Contents from each cookbook – The
    Asian Chinese Cookbook, Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal and The Oriental Cookbook in Pages.

    The Asian Cookbook – Page 2 start with No.26
    Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal – Page 2 start with No.17
    The Oriental Cookbook – Page 2 start with No.26
    When I break up the page and paste in Text the numbers in Table of Contents are not in order – perhaps I have to leave as it is or the other way is to minimise the words – but how to minimise the words

    Q2. I want to link View Menu Page in my menu Cookbooks to each Table of Contents (so that people can see the Recipes Titles) I click the link above the page> Enter URL (what URL shall I edit here and what do I do on this page) Please give me the steps to link.

    I appreciate your attention and reply.

    Sophia Lim

  • brookedot · Staff ·

    Hi Sophia,

    Staff will not make changes to your site for you. Our role is to guide and empower you to the solutions on how to use WordPress.com. However, making changes directly to your site is not something we can do.

    To break the table of contents up into multiple pages you will need to use two tables as described here:
    https://en.forums.wordpress.com/topic/to-create-a-table-of-contents-in-wordpresscom-without-a-plugin?replies=13#post-2423690

    Regarding linking from the table of contents page to the recipe you will be able to use the method described her to make a link from the table of contents to the individual post/page:
    https://en.support.wordpress.com/links/

  • visionp · Member ·

    musicdoc1

    Thank you very much for your email of 10 July 2015. I refer to
    questions in my email. I have sent you an invitation to my site http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com >Dashboard>Users>Contributor to help me on the Next Page. Please go to Pages and edit for me the Table of Contents for the 3 cookbooks

    Q1. I cannot do the nextpage as indicated by you. Kindly do for me as you can view at my site in http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com
    I have copied (from old website http://specialasianfood.com click view menu page) and pasted Table of Contents from each cookbook – The
    Asian Chinese Cookbook, Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal and The Oriental Cookbook in Pages.

    The Asian Cookbook – Page 2 start with No.26
    Chinese Cuisines Snacks and One-dish Meal – Page 2 start with No.17
    The Oriental Cookbook – Page 2 start with No.26
    When I break up the page and paste in Text the numbers in Table of Contents are not in order – perhaps I have to leave as it is or the other way is to minimise the words – but how to minimise the words

    Q2. I want to link View Menu Page in my menu Cookbooks to each Table of Contents (so that people can see the Recipes Titles) I click the link above the page> Enter URL (what URL shall I edit here and what do I do on this page) Please give me the steps to link.

    I appreciate your attention and reply.

    Sophia Lim

  • visionp · Member ·

    musicdoc1

    Have you seen my email of 17 July 2015 and sent wordpress.com user “iziboi” to see my website?

    Please confirm whether it is from you by return email.
    Thank you.

    Sophia Lim

  • visionp · Member ·

    bdukes

    Thank you for your email of 17 July 2015 I will leave my breaking to next page to do at a later date. I tried to do the PayPal Button but are have problems as WordPress has different Email Code from PayPal website and I cannot get it right. Why is WordPress Code different from PayPal code. Can I use the website code instead ? Kindly see the below copy email from PayPal and myself on this matter and advise me.

    Sophia Lim

    Recently you requested assistance from PayPal Merchant Technical Services. Below is a summary of your request and our response.

    We will assume your issue has been resolved if we do not hear from you within 7 days.

    Thank you for allowing us to be of service to you.

    To access your question from our support site, click here.

    Subject
    ProductandFeatures (ID: C702-L003-T11063-S999-W000000) (KMM166141174V58884L0KM) :ppNA

    Discussion Thread
    Response Via Email (Louis) 07/22/2015 10:11 PM
    Hi Sophia,

    I will be answering your enquiry based on the below:

    Today I login to PayPal> Profile>My Selling Tools and click Update beside PayPal buttons.
    1. I click Action Menu >Create new buttons and edit the 3 pdf cookbooks and also the printed Oriental Cookbook and delete off the old ones

    2. I then click Create New Button

    3. WordPress.com only allow all codes by Email so I Select Code copy and paste the button code into my webpage – where do I paste?
    – We are not familiar with WordPress, so we are not sure where should you paste the code, perhaps you should consult WordPress on this.

    4. I click WordPress-Admin>Pages>Add New>Paste code in the Text Editor but when I view it is still in code even after Publish
    -Same thing, you have to consult WordPress on this since this is on WordPress issue.

    5. I also try going to Appearance>Widget >Text –Title PayPal Buy Now and paste code in description>Publish>Customise but still in code
    6. I cannot see PayPal payment page by credit card and with all the logos for payment and also each cookbook’s name and buyer’s order details
    -This is the only thing we can help you with. Please provide more info like screenshot on how does it not showing the logos and the buyer’s order. Let us know the URL link to that payment button that causes this too so we are able to test it out.

    Sincerely,
    Louis Lang
    Merchant Technical Support
    PayPal
    Customer By Email (Sophia Lim) 07/22/2015 07:25 AM
    PayPal EmailHello Staff

    I have been directed by Noel from (email visible only to moderators and staff) the following email for your attention to resolve the problem.
    I cannot send you my file as it is too big to send through internet. Please read the below email and give me the steps to
    follow. If you click https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal you will see the code buttons are not the same as those in PayPal login.
    I try using PayPal email code as required by WordPress.com but it cannot work. Please give me the right button code and method
    so that I can have PayPal payment page like the one in http://specialasianfood.com (old site) Click BUY NOW and it will open up
    PayPal payment page and also the book details that have been paid on the left.

    Thank you for you attention and reply to my email below.

    Lim Soon Cheng (Sophia)
    (email visible only to moderators and staff)
    (65) 62536642

    From: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
    Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 6:43 PM
    To: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
    Subject: Re: ProductandFeatures (ID: C702-L003-T11063-S999-W000000) (KMM166141174V58884L0KM) :ppNA

    Hi Noel

    Thank you for your email of 22 July 2015 just received.

    Please see https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal I am constructing my website http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com and I would like to use PayPal Buy Button for
    buyers to purchase my 3 PDF cookbooks and also the printed Oriental Cookbook and after payment they can download the PDFs online. Can you assist and send the steps
    to do this.

    Today I login to PayPal> Profile>My Selling Tools and click Update beside PayPal buttons.
    1. I click Action Menu >Create new buttons and edit the 3 pdf cookbooks and also the printed Oriental Cookbook and delete off the old ones
    2. I then click Create New Button
    3. WordPress.com only allow all codes by Email so I Select Code copy and paste the button code into my webpage – where do I paste?
    4. I click WordPress-Admin>Pages>Add New>Paste code in the Text Editor but when I view it is still in code even after Publish
    5. I also try going to Appearance>Widget >Text –Title PayPal Buy Now and paste code in description>Publish>Customise but still in code
    6. I cannot see PayPal payment page by credit card and with all the logos for payment and also each cookbook’s name and buyer’s order
    details

    Please check with your your web developer how I can do the PayPal Buy Now button correctly and give me the steps to do.
    Thank you for your attention and reply. My telephone No. (65) 62536642

    Sophia Lim

    From: (email visible only to moderators and staff)
    Sent: Wednesday, July 22, 2015 5:55 PM
    To: Soon Cheng Lim
    Subject: RE: ProductandFeatures (ID: C702-L003-T11063-S999-W000000) (KMM166141174V58884L0KM) :ppNA

    Dear Soon Cheng Lim,

    Hi, how are you doing today? I am Noel and I would want to take this opportunity to thank you for contacting us at PayPal.

    From your email I understand you need assistance creating the buttons to integrate with your website.

    Rest assured that I will be personally calling you to explain in details for you. I will be calling from an international number.

    Please make sure you have update your latest mobile phone number on your PayPal account so that we can contact you. To add or update a mobile phone number is easy: Log in to your PayPal account, click ‘Profile’ near the top of the page, and then click ‘Update’ beside ‘Phone.’

    Sincerely,
    Noel
    PayPal Resolution Services
    PayPal

    Copyright© 1999-2015 PayPal Inc. All rights reserved.
    Consumer advisory: PayPal Pte Ltd, the Holder of the PayPal™ payment service stored value facility, does not require the approval of the Monetary Authority of Singapore. Consumers (users) are advised to read the terms and conditions carefully.

    [—001:004634:65328—]

  • brookedot · Staff ·

    Hi Sophia,

    Will you provide a link to the page you are trying to add the PayPal button to? If you could also paste a link to the PayPal email code you are being provided that would be helpful.

    Here is a different support document that may also help you add a PayPal buy now button: https://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/get-paypal-button-code/

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi bdukes

    Thank you for your email of 24 July 2015. I have sent an email to PayPal Technical Support as below and waiting for a reply so that we can resolve the problem. See Below.
    Hello Staff

    I cannot click open the link you ask me to login to PayPal’s Merchant Technical below. I am referring to your email below.

    1. I login to PayPal and noticed that PayPal has given me a new PayPal and an old PayPal. The WordPress http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal/get-paypal-button-code/ went to my old website. When I clicked Profile>Profile Settings>My Personal Info>My Selling Tools – I saw the Merchant ID : 857UCQBXLHAMS and all the Actions for the books were not edited – that is why I could not use the WordPress Email Code.

    2. I understand PayPal has revamped its website recently – where is the new website now. I did try editing in the new website using WordPress PayPal Button Code. The site was different from the old one but I cannot find the new one now after trying out the old PayPal site. Please send to me the new PayPal new website. The new PayPal website – I login>Profile>Profile Settings>My Business Info>My Selling Tools (what is this API access – do I disregard it?). I saw the Merchant ID: S8R774K3BTAAL and all the books under Action were edited on 22/7/2015 and I use the Merchant ID instead of the Email Code. It shows HTML so I copy and paste to my http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com and was able to see the PayPal Buy Button with the logos

    Please update me my PayPal website so that I can send the link to WordPress.com for them to update the PayPal Merchant ID and my Primary Email so that I can use the HTML or Email Code to get the PayPal Buy Button.

    Thank you for your attention and reply.

    Sophia Lim

  • visionp · Member ·

    Hi bdukes

    I have login to http://paypal.com/login and check their websites and discover as below copy and I shall send you the HTML and Email Code for my 3 cookbooks by separate email so that you can advise me how to link to my 3 cookbooks on the right Sidebar of my Front page.
    Hi Louis Lang

    Thank you for your email of 27 July 2015. To answer to the questions listed as below.

    1. I would prefer Merchant ID: S8R774K3BTAAL as this one can show the PayPal BUY NOW button with logos – this must be the new PayPal’s website.

    2.Click http://en.support.wordpress.com/paypal>Get PayPal Button Code>http://paypal/login Your menu PayPal Summary Balance Activity Customers Tools More>
    Profile>Profile &settings>My Selling Tools>
    Add PayPal Buttons>Manage my PayPal buttons>Update
    My Saved Buttons>Action(you see each book recently edited) >Edit (next page you see the book’s name and PayPal BUY NOW button with logos
    Do not customise as WordPress do not allow. Scroll down you will see
    Merchant ID
    Dot in circle Use Merchant ID – Save Changes

    3. Add PayPal Button to your webpage>
    Copy Code HTML or Email Code>
    Select Code Copy and Paste to http://specialasianfood.wordpress.com webpage text

    The Email Code cannot work but the HTML seems to appear. I shall copy and paste the 3 cookbooks HTML and Email Code to WordPress to see whether they can rectify the problems. Keep this email open until you hear from me again as soon as I can.

    Thank you for your attention wait for my reply.

    Lim Soon Cheng (Sophia)

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