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by Steve 4.2 (11 reviews)

SubHeading

Adds the ability to easily add and display a sub title/heading on any public post type.

SubHeading ranks #6,938 among WordPress.org plugins with 1,000+ active installations, is #796 of 8,549 in the Customization category, a 4.2/5 rating from 11 reviews, and was last updated Jul 27, 2015. Data from WordPress.org, refreshed twice daily — see methodology.

Tested up to WP 4.2 (Current: 7.1)
v1.8.1 Current Version v1.8.1
Updated 11 years ago Last Update on 27 Jul, 2015
Refreshed 13 hours ago Last Refreshed on
#796 of 8,549 in Customization Top 10% by installs No update in over a year
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Review 4.2 out of 5
4.2 (11 reviews)

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Reviews & Ratings

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11 reviews
Overall 84%
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Security History

Source: WPVulnerability

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TL;DR

AI summary of the plugin's readme

This plugin is for WordPress site owners and administrators who want to add a subtitle beneath the main title on posts, pages, or custom post types. It solves the problem of WordPress lacking a built-in subheading field by adding a custom field positioned directly below the title in the editor.

  • Custom subheading field
  • Works on any public post type
  • Field positioned below main title
  • Appends subheading to RSS feeds
  • Shows subheading in admin post lists
  • Configurable settings page
  • Brazilian Portuguese translation

Frequently Asked Questions

Common questions about SubHeading

By default subheadings are only enabled for pages, you can enable them for posts or any public custom post type via the Settings > Reading page. Just check the box that says Enable on Posts. or the required post type.
The field name used is _subheading, the underscore prefix prevents it from being displayed in the list of custom fields.
Check the RSS option on the settings page Plugins > SubHeading > Append to RSS feeds.
Check the apply shortcode filters option on the settings page Plugins > SubHeading > Apply shortcode filters. This will apply any existing shortcode filters to the subheading value you have set.
Some plugins will hide the element containing the post title, which is this element that the subheading input is appended to. You can prevent the repositioning of the input via the options page.
If you are using the option to automatically wrap the subheading content, you can include custom content before and after the subheading is displayed. For example, setting Before to <h3> and after to </h3> will wrap the subheading in a h3 tag.
Using the "Automatically display subheadings before post content." setting will prepend any subheading value before outputting any post content. The output can be customised slightly using the "Before" and "After" fields, however if you prefer more customisation and control it is probably best to disable this setting and edit the output within your theme templates. To display subheadings, place <?php if (function_exists('the_subheading')) { the_subheading('<p>', '</p>'); } ?> in your template files where you want the subheading to appear.
By default the plugin uses the default list of allowed tags, which can result in certain tags such as <br /> and <p> being removed from subheadings or settings. This can be resolved by adding valid tags to the allowed list using either the subheading_tags or subheading_settings_tags filters. If, for example, you wanted to enable the <br /> tag in subheadings, include the following function to your theme functions.php file. add_filter( 'subheading_tags', function( $tags ) { $tags['br'] = array(); return $tags; } ); Note here that the array key 'br' is the tag name and the values array should be a list of valid attributes for that tag, for example $tags['span'] = array('class' => array(), 'id' => array());. The list of default allowed tags for both subheadings and settings (before and after) is as follows: $allowedtags = array( 'a' => array( 'href' => array(), 'title' => array()), 'abbr' => array( 'title' => array()), 'acronym' => array( 'title' => array()), 'b' => array(), 'blockquote' => array( 'cite' => array ()), 'cite' => array(), 'code' => array(), 'del' => array( 'datetime' => array()), 'em' => array(), 'i' => array(), 'q' => array( 'cite' => array()), 'strike' => array(), 'strong' => array(), ); The settings validation additioanlly allows the following tags. ... 'h1' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array()), 'h2' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array()), 'h3' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array()), 'h4' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array()), 'h5' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array()), 'h6' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array()), 'p' => array( 'class' => array(), 'id' => array()), ... If you require the use of an additional tags or attributes, they will need to be added using the filters.
As of version 1.7.1 you can make use of the 'subheading' filter to manipulate the final output. For example, limiting the subheading to 5 words can be done by adding the following to your theme functions.php file. add_filter( 'subheading', function( $value ) { return wp_trim_words( $value, 5 ); } ); This example makes use of the wp_trim_words function introduced in WordPress 3.3.
If you are using older versions of PHP (< 5.3.0), you will not be able to make use of anonymous functions used in some of these examples. Further information on the use of anonymous functions and WordPress can be read in the [WordPress Codex](http://codex.wordpress.org/Function_Reference/add_filter#Beware WordPress Codex Reference).

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