Match by heading not shortcode

Hello,

Thanks for the plugin – it’s a real time saver!

I’m not sure if this is any help for you at all but I needed to adapt the plugin so that users don’t have to enter the shortcodes after the nextpage tags (believe it or not this is too complex for our users). So I changed your for loop in /includes/class-simple-paginated-posts.php on line 276 to get the first heading in the html block of each page as a title. I also added a check to make sure it gets a heading (or shortcode) and if not fill it with a default (Page 1, Page 2 etc.). The code is:

for ( $i = 1; $i < ($numpages); $i = $i + 1 ) {
                //Match headings
                preg_match('|<h[^>]+>(.*)</h[^>]+>|iU',$pages[$i],$matchingHeadings[$i]);  

                //If we found a match use it as our heading
                if(!empty($matchingHeadings[$i])){
                    //TODO:Strip out any innerhtml that may be there (spans, links etc.)
                    $this->page_titles[] = trim($matchingHeadings[$i][1]);//1 is the inner part
                }
                else{
                    preg_replace_callback( "/$shortcode_pattern/s", array( $this, 'get_shortcode_atts' ), $pages[$i] );
                }

                //No title found use default
                if(empty($this->page_titles[$i])){
                    $this->page_titles[] = __('Page ') . ($i + 1);
                }
			}

I’d love to see this added into the plugin if possible.

Thanks,
James

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