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Visual Subtitle

Description

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 with a colon (:) character.

Translations

Screenshots

  • The back-end interface, showing the Visual Subtitle field.
  • Showing the visual subtitle on the front-end, in this case, styled red, smaller, italic and bold.
  • The front-end markup, showing the span inside the existing heading element (may differ for your own theme).
  • Showing the subtitle in the Posts list - the second entry has no subtitle.
  • The subtitle can also be amended from the quick edit feature.

Installation

  1. Unzip and upload visual-subtitle folder to the /wp-content/plugins/ directory.
  2. Activate the plugin through the ‘Plugins’ menu in WordPress.

FAQ

Can I change the separators?

Only currently by amending the plugin code.

My subtitle isn’t appearing on a new line?

You need to add the .subtitle { display: block; } style to your own theme, along with any other styling you want for it.

Reviews

July 5, 2018
Works as advertised. Simply added the following CSS to help is deeply a bit more clearly on my site: .subtitle { display: block; margin-top: 1px; font-size: 2.2rem; font-weight: 400; }
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Contributors & Developers

“Visual Subtitle” is open source software. The following people have contributed to this plugin.

Contributors

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Interested in development?

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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.

1.1.0

  • Reposition subtitle field to after title.
  • Add ability for developers to choose which post types have visual subtitle support.
  • Code tidy-up

1.0.1

  • Fixed display issue on Comments page.
  • Added key bit of code that makes the plugin read translation files (props to Dave for the reminder).
  • Added link to German (de_DE) translation file in the readme.

1.0

  • First public version.