Archived WordPress plugin · Pepro Dev · Open source

Blogging Assistant

A table of contents, share buttons and reading aids, in one plugin.

A free plugin for long posts: an automatic table of contents, numbered headings, share buttons, an in-page navigation and a reading progress bar, plus an option to stop visitors copying the text.

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On GitHub2020 to 2022

The Pepro Blogging Assistant settings page in WordPress, with tabs for post, page, media and product options, and sections for share buttons and their colours and networks, table of contents, in-page navigation, scroll progress bar, copy protection and highlight colours.

What you are looking at

One settings page, with separate options for posts, pages, media and products.
Each feature is a checkbox, and each has its own colours.

Screenshot from the original project, April 2022 or earlier.

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It started as the set of reading tools every blog project asked for. Rather than rebuild them each time, they went into one free plugin with one settings page.

For readers

10 customisable share buttons: floating in four positions, before the content or after it
An automatic, hierarchical table of contents, before or after the content
Automatic heading numbers, with an anchor id and a link back to the table of contents
A floating in-page navigation, on the right or the left
A scroll progress bar at the top or the bottom, reversible
A button to hide or show the admin bar on the front end
Protection against copying the content
A custom highlight colour for selected text

For developers

Right-to-left ready
Works with WooCommerce
Supports every public custom post type
Hooks to add, edit and remove options and front-end output
A hook to see every current setting on the front end

functions.phpThe debug hook: show every current setting on the front end.

add_filter(
  "pepro_blog_assistant/debug_frontend_sections",
  function( $aa, $bb ) { return $bb; },
  10, 2
);

Published by Pepro Dev as free software under the GPL. Developers can change almost everything through hooks instead of editing the plugin.

WordPressPHPJavaScriptTable of contentsSocial sharingRTL

Status

Archived. The last push to GitHub was in January 2022.

Blogging Assistant

What it does

For readers

For developers

How it was built

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