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My headings are H1s and nothing is listed

Updated Table of Contents 1.8.1Tested with WordPress 7.1

H1 is switched off by default, and that is usually right: on most themes the only H1 is the post title, so a contents list built from H1s would have one entry — the page you are already on.

If your content genuinely uses H1 for its sections, tick H1 under Settings → Heading levels. It is worth fixing the content instead if you can, because several H1s on one page is a real accessibility problem independent of this plugin. In the block editor the post's Table of Contents box offers to do it: with two or more H1s it shows Make them H2, which moves the headings under them down with them. Undo, or Ctrl+Z, puts them back, and nothing is saved until you save the post.

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A journal post about washing a hoodie. After the opening paragraph, a contents list in the Ladder design is headed Contents, 18 sections, 3 min read, with a Hide control and a thin progress bar. It lists five numbered sections, Before you wash it, Washing, Drying, Storing it between seasons and When something goes wrong, each with its own numbered sub-sections joined by a line of dots.