Best heading plugins for WordPress
The most popular heading plugins for WordPress in November 2026, in WordPress.org’s own popular order, which follows active installs. Secondary Title leads with 7K+ active installs, ahead of Custom Archive Titles (2K+) and SubHeading (900+). All 25 plugins tagged “heading” are below, with figures from WordPress.org that update every day.
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Top 10 heading plugins
- 1.
Secondary TitleThe most installed heading plugin, with 7K+ active installs. Rated 4.9 from 72 reviews, updated 3 months ago.
- 2.
Custom Archive Titles2K+ active installs. Only 4 reviews so far, last updated 5 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 5.8.19.
- 3.
SubHeading900+ active installs. Rated 4.2 from 11 reviews, last updated 8 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.2.39.
- 4.
LRW Widgets Bundle300+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 5.
f(x) TOC200+ active installs. Rated 5.0 from 5 reviews, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.7.39.
- 6.
Advanced Heading200+ active installs. Only 1 review so far, updated 1 week ago.
- 7.
"SEO-HEADERS-Easy" Protocol HTTP 1.1100+ active installs. Only 3 reviews so far, last updated 10 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 4.4.34.
- 8.
Override Post Title with First Content Heading70+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 16 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2.
- 9.
Capitalize Titles and Headings70+ active installs. Only 2 reviews so far, last updated 3 years ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.2.15.
- 10.
Element Bits50+ active installs. No reviews yet, last updated 1 year ago. Tested only up to WordPress 6.8.12.
All 25 plugins tagged “heading”
Secondary Title
Down in the last 7 days:3#2,525by thaikolja3 months ago
Secondary Title is a simple, lightweight plugin that allows you to easily add an alternative title to posts, pages, and/or custom post types.
- Installs
- 7K+
- Rating
- 4.9(72)
- Downloads
- 53/day
Custom Archive Titles
Down in the last 7 days:14#4,482by ThemeZee5 years ago
A small and simple plugin to adjust the default texts of archive titles in WordPress
- Installs
- 2K+
- Rating
- 5.0(4)
- Downloads
- 11/day
SubHeading
Down in the last 7 days:32#6,996by Steve9 years ago
Adds the ability to easily add and display a sub title/heading on any public post type.
- Installs
- 900+
- Rating
- 4.2(11)
- Downloads
- 11/day
LRW Widgets Bundle
Down in the last 7 days:28#10,605by luizrw10 years ago
Extends the functions of the plugin SiteOrigin Widgets with new widgets options.
- Installs
- 300+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 6/day
f(x) TOC
Down in the last 7 days:53#11,304by David Chandra Purnama10 years ago
Simple Table Of Contents Plugin. Just add [toc] shortcode in content to display.
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(5)
- Downloads
- 6/day
Advanced Heading
Down in the last 7 days:14#11,583by WPDeveloper12 days ago
Create Advanced Heading with Title, Subtitle and Separator Controls
- Installs
- 200+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 17/day
"SEO-HEADERS-Easy" Protocol HTTP 1.1
#15,805by Smiling_Hemp11 years ago
Sends to a client correct HTTP headers Last Modified, Cache Control and 304 Not Modified
- Installs
- 100+
- Rating
- 4.7(3)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Override Post Title with First Content Heading
Up in the last 7 days:3#18,739by Weston Ruter17 years ago
On a singular post/page, returns the contents of the first content H1 or H2 instead of the post_title as normally. Facilitates SEO.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Capitalize Titles and Headings
Down in the last 7 days:250#19,011by Benjamin Intal3 years ago
Properly capitalize your English post titles, page titles and heading blocks after you type it.
- Installs
- 70+
- Rating
- 3.0(2)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Element Bits
Up in the last 7 days:69#21,008by skapator1 year ago
Element Bits adds a growing collection of lightweight, easy-to-use widgets to Elementor page builder, helping you build beautiful pages faster.
- Installs
- 50+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Easy Announcements
#23,881by Philly Web Team7 months ago
Easily add announcements in the form of banners and popups to your WordPress site.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatic Hx Menu
#24,181by albedo01 year ago
Automatically generate a navigation menu from the titles of a post or a page
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
Small Heading For Post Title
#24,942by Mostafa Shahiri8 years ago
The Small Heading For Post Title is a simple plugin for displaying small headings (subtitles) before or after post title.
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Soft Hyphen Inserter
#24,953by Nic5 months ago
Gives you full control over word hyphenation in Gutenberg Editor
- Installs
- 30+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Automatic Heading Number
Up in the last 7 days:1,795#39,401by revzap13 years ago
Automatically assign numbers within blog posts.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Ultimate Table of Contents
#40,034by irfankhan303 years ago
Ultimate Table of Contents plugin for specific for content have heading.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Impact Widgets for Elementor
Down in the last 7 days:2,789#44,302by impactaddons4 months ago
Advanced Elementor widgets for headings, buttons, icon boxes, and lists with flexible design and style controls.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- 5.0(1)
- Downloads
- 0/day
HLogoZ-WP
Down in the last 7 days:3,985#46,409by Ryan Christenson15 years ago
Automatically changes your logo/header image based on the date. Images and flash (swf files) supported.
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 2/day
Just Headline
#47,176by Alex Prokopenko / JustCoded10 years ago
Widget to easy add a single HTML heading tag
- Installs
- 10+
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Image Heading
#58,297by cy8s6 years ago
Extends the core/heading block to allow for an image to be displayed in place of the heading text.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Zorvex Widgets for Elementor
Up in the last 7 days:1,578#58,802by Helal Uddin3 months ago
A modular Elementor addon with customizable creative and content widgets plus a centralized widget manager.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Advanced Heading for Gutenberg Block Editor
Up in the last 7 days:6,785#62,097by bdthemes5 months ago
The Advanced Heading block helps you create customizable headlines with advanced features like text highlighting, image masking etc.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Heading ID Copy
Up in the last 7 days:2,933#63,857by devcj1 year ago
Heading ID Copy is a lightweight WordPress plugin that automatically assigns unique IDs to heading tags (h2-h6).
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day
Deep Semantic HTML Checker
Down in the last 7 days:14,024#66,977by Mahdeep11 months ago
Automatically fix common SEO issues related to heading structure in WordPress.
- Installs
- <10
- Rating
- –
- Downloads
- 0/day