This entry is part of a series, TOC Misconceptions»
There have been rumors that SEO Table Of Contents wouldn’t work properly on long pages with more than 12,500 characters. I just made a functional page with 29,837 (!) characters and a TOC, wich proves the rumors wrong.
Check it out, see for yourself: the TOC Test With Looong Text.
Entries in this series:
- TOC Malfunction Rumors Disproved
- TOC Malfunction Rumors Disproved Again
July 17th, 2009 at 10:08 am
Yes, you may right – even if this error is exist.
I was not aware that WP’s counter count in words not characters. So now I repeat the thing using your dummy text.
See the results:
A. A 13452 words long page – there is no generated content.
B. A 12971 words long page – it is just reach the limit, generated normal. It is about 88-89000 characters, and 732 paragraph. I have no exact method to measure it, I used Notepad++ and OpenOffice.
C. A 12963 words long page – it is somewhat smaller becouse I used a class in the shortcode. It is almost the same in charaters, about 88000.
So, first of all, I apologize for the misleading data. But it is not a rumor, it is a fact.
Please check it again.
July 17th, 2009 at 11:53 am
It may be a fact, but another one than initially stated. The initial statement was a rumor.
I’ll check it out.
July 17th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
I checked and disproved it again!
No, really, there is a problem with huge posts and shortcodes in general, but it doesn’t have anything to do with my plugin. I just posted about it in more detail.