Secondary Title
Secondary Title is a simple, lightweight plugin that allows you to easily add an alternative title to posts, pages, and/or custom post types.
4.9(72 reviews)
·8.0K+ active installs·Updated 1 year agoAs of April 2026, Secondary Title is a WordPress title plugin with 8.0K+ active installations and a 4.9/5 rating from 72 reviews. It has been downloaded 178K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 4.0+ and PHP 7.4+. Available on WordPress.org since 2014. Last updated 1 year ago — may have compatibility concerns. Downloads are up 17% this week. Support resolution rate: 0%. Top alternative: Title Remover.
4.9/572 reviews
8.0K+active installs
0%resolved
12 yearssince 2014
Overview
Secondary Title is a simple, light-weight plugin that adds an alternative title to posts, pages, and/or custom post types, which can be displayed automatically, with a shortcode or by using PHP.
The plugin comes with an extra settings page, which allows you to customize the plugin according to your needs. You can change:
- post types, categories, and specific post IDs the secondary title will be
shown on, - whether the secondary title should be automatically added to the standard title (Auto show),
- the format both titles are being shown (only works when Auto show is activated),
- the position where the secondary title input field should be displayed (above or below the standard title) within the admin interface (Classic Editor only),
- whether the secondary title should only be displayed in the…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Recent Reviews
it’s great and can be controlled individually with CSS
by gudrun·1 year ago·1 reply
Hello everyone,
I give the plugin 5 stars and can highly recommend it.
Many thanks to Kolja (the developer) who helped me to be able to control the secondary title on each page individually with CSS in order to display the design differently.
This means that the secondary title is displayed smaller than the primary title and the reader can be offered even more information.
Now it’s great and I have no more wishes. 🙂
In addition to the review, the donation will follow shortly so that this great plugin can continue to exist for a long time.
Enhancing WordPress Titles with Elegance
by digitb·1 year ago
The Secondary Title plugin may be tiny, but it is highly effective and incredibly useful. This plugin adds a unique dimension to the traditional WordPress title, enhancing its attractiveness. Young and talented developer Kolja Nolte has been exceptionally helpful, resolving a seemingly critical issue with the title display on my homepage with great dedication. I am deeply grateful for his assistance and look forward to more outstanding plugins from him in the future.
I request the respected moderators of the WordPress forum to allow Kolja Nolte to interact seamlessly with the 9000+ plugin users.
Very useful.
by mkdes·1 year ago
Very useful.
I enchanced with ChatGPT
by Topher·2 years ago
First off, this is great, it works very well, I’m super happy with it.
I did NOT however want to delve into making custom templates, what I wanted was to treat the subtitle field like the excerpt. So I went to ChatGPT and said
“make a wordpress plugin that replaces the content of the except with the content of a meta field”
The only thing I had to change was the name of the field, which is _secondary_title. I’d love to see this as an option in the plugin, the code is only about 10 lines.
Thank you for your plugin and your help Kolja
by joon2k·3 years ago
Great plugin and great support. You solved easily my title sizing and now I know how to do it. Best regards
Download Trends
Today: 23Yesterday: 24This week: 138Period total: 11K
Compatibility
| WordPress | 4.0+ requiredTested up to 6.7.5 |
| PHP | 7.4+ required |
Version Adoption
v2.2
65.5%
v2.0
17.7%
v2.1
13.2%
v1.9
3.5%
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Frequently Asked Questions
Changelog
2.2.0
- Added support for WordPress
v6.7.1 - Added official Secondary Title documentation (still in progress)
- Added comments in the code for better readability
- Changed minimum PHP version from
v7.1tov7.4since the majority of WordPress sites use PHPv7.4or above - Fixed possible security vulnerability for XSS
…and 5 more changes
Contributors
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