Reading aids: how the four blocks work

Four independent blocks can sit above the article text. They are not one "article mode": each is switched on separately, any of them can stay off forever, and none depends on another.

#The rule they all share

The switch lives in Theme Options. The content lives in the post.

So a block that is switched on renders nothing on a post that has no data for it. That is deliberate, not an empty frame and not a bug: the page does not put a heading above nothing.

There is one exception. The table of contents is built from the article itself rather than from a field, so it has nothing to fill in. It appears when the text contains headings at the levels you selected.

#The order on the page

From the top down: the summarize row, the TL;DR card, the key points card, the table of contents, then the article text. The order is fixed and not configurable.

#Where each one lives

All four are on VerbaTheme OptionsSingle PostBody, each in its own group.

Block	Group	Content comes from
Summarize with AI	Summarize With AI	Generated on request
Summary (TL;DR)	Summary (TL;DR)	The Summary (TL;DR) field in the post
Key points	Key Points	The Key points repeater in the post
Table of contents	Table of Contents	The article headings

The post fields for the first two are in the Editorial panel under the editor. The summary is a text field; key points is a repeating list, one takeaway per row.

#Heading tag and heading size

Three of the four blocks carry the same trio of heading controls: the text, its HTML tag, and its size. Tag and size are separate on purpose.

The tag is document structure: it tells search engines and screen readers whether this line is a section heading of the article. The size is only appearance.

For most posts a TL;DR is not a section of the article, so a paragraph tag is more honest than an h2, even when you want it to look prominent. Set the tag for the structure and the size for the design.

Each block also has a style field: which surface the card is painted on, from the theme shared set.

#Where to go next

• TL;DR
• Key points
• Table of contents
• Summarize with AI

The reading bar holds a second place for the summarize action and the reading progress. Sources and citations is a fifth editorial block, but it sits at the end of a post rather than the start, so it has its own page.

Last updated 9 Sep 2026