Feature request: automatic TOC from categories

I’ve been thinking of maybe a widget for the TOC. How would we know what order to put the wiki articles in if the TOC was generated automatically?

Generating the whole TOC automatically is a bit tricky, because there’s not necessarily one ordering that will work for all wikis.

Maybe it’d help to think of it as multiple kinds of lists?

There’s an index, which lists everything alphabetically. Listing every page alphabetically is a bit much for large wikis, but having a way to list all of the wiki pages in a particular category or with a particular tag would go a long way. (And then having an index for when someone really just wants to look at all of the pages.)

There’s also the categories and tags; maybe a master TOC could list the categories, and then the categories could have their own table of contents pages?

Just some suggestions.

Good suggestions. Thank you.

In case you hadn’t seen, the tag cloud widget allows you to select the wiki tags for display. Also, there are some plugins that give you widgets for displaying custom taxonomies, including the articles of custom taxonomies … in case you need to set things up while I ponder this.

OK. I have expanded the TOC shortcode and added a sidebar widget to allow for category indexes. I hope this makes administering your wiki easier.