Tagline Rotator plugin randomly selects a tagline from a list of user-entered taglines.
As of April 2026, Tagline Rotator is a WordPress header plugin with 100 active installations and a 4/5 rating from 2 reviews. It has been downloaded 10K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9+ and PHP false+. Available on WordPress.org since 2008. Last updated 14 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WPCode – Insert Headers and Footers +….
Update 12-28-10: If you’re running an updated version of WP (i.e. 3.0 or later), the plugin may not show your taglines at first. If you deactivate and reactivate the plugin, your taglines should appear. This is due to a change in WordPress that you can read about here. The Tagline Rotator plugin does pretty much what it sounds like it would do: it randomly selects a tagline
(that’s the description of your blog beneath the title) from a list of user-compiled taglines, then displays
it within your blog. It offers a couple of advantages over some of the other similar plugins I found, most
importantly that it uses the mySQL database within WordPress, and therefore should not slow down page loads
significantly. As of version 1.1, it is now WP database prefix compliant, meaning it will us…
| WordPress | 2.9+ requiredTested up to 3.3.2 |
| PHP | false+ required |
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