How To Add Subtitles To Post and Pages In WordPress(Step By Step)

 Do you know that adding a subtitle for your WordPress posts and pages convey more information to viewers and helps drive more traffic?

Subtitles can help to hook to your readers and inspire them to read the all of your content which might increase conversations.

In this step by step guide, we will show you how to add subtitles to your posts and pages on your WordPress site.

Why Add Subtitles to Posts and Pages in WordPress?

Adding subtitles, or sub titles, to your WordPress posts and pages lets you display more information about your content to encourage your visitors to read more.

This is common in many major blogs and websites like Medium, Brain Pickings, and many more.

Subtitles give you a chance to explain your title and tell your readers what they’ll get our of reading your WordPress blog post.

By adding subtitles to WordPress, it motivate visitors to stay on your website longer and read more content, which can increase pageviews and reduce bounce rate.

With that being said, let’s show you how you can add subtitles  to your WordPress posts and pages easily.

Adding Subtitles to WordPress Posts and Pages

The easiest way to add subtitles to your WordPress website is by using the Secondary Titles plugin. It lets you easily add subtitles to your posts and pages and fully customize the appearance.

#Step1: Installing and Activating Secondary Title Plugin

The First step you need to take is to install and activate the plugin. For more details, see our beginner’s guide on how to install a WordPress plugin.

Upon activation, Go to Settings to the Secondary Title to go to the plugin settings screen.

#Step2: Using Automatic Format

For Now, you can decide to show subtitles automatic format or show them manual format. Automatic placement is best for starters, but we will base this article more on the manual method.

To turn on automatic placement simply click ‘On’ in the ‘Auto show’ section of the page.

#Step3: Changing Appearance of Subtitle

After that, you can change the appearance of your subtitle. By its normal settings, it will display the post title separated by a colon, like for instance:

The Post Title: The Secondary Title

To add changes to this, just add new HTML to the ‘Title format’ box.

As you make changes, it will display in the ‘Preview’ box by itself.

#Step4: Add Settings To Improve Subtitles

You can set how you want your subtitle to display in the ‘Display Rules’ section.

You have full authority over when your subtitles will display and when they will be hidden.

First, we will select ‘On’ in the ‘Only show in main post’ section, so our subtitles will only display if they are in the main blog roll.

#Step5: Choosing The Types of Post and Categories

With The next step, you can choose the post types where you want subtitles to display in the ‘Post types’ category.

To display subtitles for posts and pages, just check both boxes.

Next, you can choose which post categories you want to allow subtitles in the ‘Categories’ section.

Just check the boxes for the post categories you want to allow.

You also have the option to only display subtitles for specific post IDs.

To do this, enter your post ID or multiple post IDs into the ‘Post IDs’ box.

For more details on finding your post ID, see out a guide on how to find IDs in WordPress.

In the final ‘Miscellaneous Settings’ box, you can keep your subtitles searchable and switch the column position in your WordPress admin panel.

We will leave the default settings, but you can change these if you like.

After that, click the ‘Save Changes’ button to save your settings.

#Step6: Creating A Subtitle

Now, you can create your subtitle.

To do this, open up the post or page you want to edit and then enter your subtitle in the ‘Secondary Title’ box in the right hand menu.

Then, click ‘Update’ or ‘Publish’ to make your changes live.

Now, when your visitors view your post, they’ll see your new subtitle.

Manually Displaying Subtitles on WordPress Posts and Pages

You also have the option to display subtitles on your posts and pages manually. This gives you more control over where your subtitles will display on individual posts and pages.

To do this, simply select the ‘Off’ option in the ‘Auto show’ section in the main plugin settings screen page.

Then, you can manually display secondary titles in your WordPress theme by adding code to your theme template files.

If you haven’t done this before, then see our beginner’s guide to pasting code/ snippets from the web into WordPress.

Next, you need to find the right template file to add the code. For most themes this will be post.php, single.php page templates.

To get more information, see out a guide on how to understand WordPress template hierarchy cheat sheet to guide find the right theme template file.

Then, add the following code:

2	<?php echo get_secondary_title(); ?>

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