Visual Subtitle
Allows part of a post title to be styled as a subtitle. It is still within the title heading, but is wrapped in a span to be styled differently.
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·100 active installs·Updated 5 years agoAs of April 2026, Visual Subtitle is a WordPress subtitle plugin with 100 active installations and a 5/5 rating from 1 reviews. It has been downloaded 11K+ times in total. Requires WordPress 2.9.0+ and PHP 5.6+. Available on WordPress.org since 2011. Last updated 5 years ago — may have compatibility concerns. Top alternative: WP Subtitle.
5/51 reviews
100active installs
11K+total downloads
15 yearssince 2011
Overview
This plugin adds a Visual Subtitle field to all post, page and custom post types that have support for a title, and that use the Classic Editor. It doesn’t work with the Block Editor.
It allows you to include a string of text that will still be part of the post title, but be wrapped in a span tag, giving something like:
<h1>Visual Subtitle<span class="subtitle"></span></h1>
Keeping it as part of the main level 1 or two heading, means it maintains as much keyword SEO importance as the main title, yet can be given a style (in your own theme) of display: block; to make it visually appear as a subtitle.
The visual subtitle is appended to to the title on on the Posts screen, separated with a pipe (|) character, and appended to the title part of the document title…
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Ratings & Reviews
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Compatibility
| WordPress | 2.9.0+ requiredTested up to 5.5.18 |
| PHP | 5.6+ required |
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Changelog
1.2.0
- Refreshed for 2020 (fix code standards).
- Fix line-endings in the class file to avoid parser error in PHP 7.3.
- Slightly refactor how the plugin is initiated.
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