How to Add Subtitles to WordPress
February 19, 2009 – 11:53 am
In just 3 easy steps you can have attractive subtitles on your WordPress site.
- Go to the edit screen for the post or page where you want subtitles.
- Under the Custom Fields heading, enter a new custom field name. Type subtitle in the Name field. Type the subtitle text in the Value field. Add the custom field.
- Add the below code in your post or page template after the title code (or wherever you want it to appear) and save.
< ?php
{ $subtitle = get_post_meta
($post->ID, 'subtitle', $single = true);
if($subtitle !== '') echo $subtitle;} ?>
Voila!
10 WordPress Plugins to Grow Great Sites
July 28, 2008 – 12:56 pm
We run quite a few WordPress blogs, and these fantastic plugins manage to pop up on nearly all of them
- Akismet- It is hard to grow a site when you keep getting comment spam. Hardly anything gets through, and it is very simple to use.
- All in One SEO Pack- This optimizes like you wouldn’t believe. You can fix your titles, keywords, descriptions, block spiders, and more. I’ve been able to get great results with small sites.
- FeedBurner FeedSmith- You can manage your feed subscribers much more easily and utilize the great functions of FeedBurner.
- Google XML Sitemaps- A great boost to SEO. Google uses sitemaps to help them determine what information should be indexed. This plugin helps.
- Lighter Menus- Let’s face it, drop down menus are much faster to navigate, and you don’t need to waste time or space when working on your site. (This is not needed for WordPress 2.7 and above)
- Plugin Central- Easily install and update plugins from your dashboard. Since you don’t need to use ftp anymore, you can quickly manage plugins anywhere. I think it is still easier than WordPress 2.7’s autoupdate for plugins.
- Subscribe To Comments- Let people receive notification that someone responded to their comment. It may be useful to them, and may also bring them back to the site. Always encourage discussion.
- WassUp- Real time stats (OS, browser, host, referrer, location, top content, top searches) help you determine which content and marketing efforts are working, and give you immediate satisfaction when you have site visitors. Plus, there are great sort options.
- WordPress Thread Comment- The site may be hard to understand, but setup is simple, and you get an attractive, useful implementation of threaded comments upon activation. WordPress 2.7 added threaded comments, but this is easier and better, in my opinion.
- WP-DBManager- You never know if something will go wrong with your database. Back it up and optimize it at least once a month.
Notable omissions:
- WP Super Cache- When your site becomes a hit, you will probably want to cache your pages so your server is not overrun. For sites with less traffic, a cache plugin can be annoying since you can not see updates to your site immediately.
- Post-Plugin Library- Great for a power user, it lets you use the connected Similar Posts, Recent Comments, and Random Comments. I was able to combine with the custom field to display an image with each similar post. However, it breaks many other plugins and can cause errors in WordPress. Update: These plugins are not buggy anymore, and are very powerful.
What other plugins do you use?
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- Mathias Vagni- I think what is making it not work for you is the space between the first "<" and "?php". Delete the space.
- Joel- Oh, duh! My bad. There they are. Can the subtitles appear just below the title on the main page, before the jump? It looks out of place when it's below the date, appearing more like a blurb than a subtitle.
- Joel- Great tip. I just wish you attached screenshots to the article. It's difficult to imagine how these subtitles look like when coupled with Wordpress blog titles if you've been seeing just titles since the blogging platform was launched.
- Gloria Charm- Yea, these are all great opinion! I am so with you on this one... Let me see if it works on my blog.
- Traffic plugin guy- Relating to WordPress and WordPress plugins. We have a a really interesting viral traffic plugin that will for sure help your website increase the visits. It enhances the Facebook Like or Share buttons but in a way that you have never seen. Our plugin gently pushes a message to the visitors of the site

