Override Post Title with First Content Heading

On a singular post/page, returns the contents of the first content H1 or H2 instead of the post_title as normally. Facilitates SEO.

⚠ Stale⚠ Likely abandoned⚠ Few reviews

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41 Health · D

Maintenance 3/100

Rating quality 65/100

Support 70/100

41 health vs 62 average across 698 SEO plugins

80+

Active installs

≈87 estimated

4.8K

Total downloads

since 2009

3.60★

Rating (adjusted)

0.0★ raw · 0 reviews

-50%

Downloads · 30d

trailing 30 days

High removal-risk signals

63/100

Maintenance and integrity signals that tend to precede a WordPress.org removal. Not an official status, a heads-up to act.

Long abandoned. No update in 16+ years — the top precursor to removal once a vulnerability is found.
Compatibility drift. Tested only up to WordPress 2.9.2, well behind 6.8.

Directory ranking optimization

How it's scored →

How well this listing is tuned to rank in WordPress.org search, on the factors an owner controls. Not popularity, optimization.

35 / 100

Under-optimized

Biggest win: Update recency

Update recency 0/100

WP compatibility 1/100

Rating quality 49/100

Listing tuning 100/100

To rank higher: Last updated 6052 days ago — ship an update; wp.org decays a listing's search weight after ~180 days.

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Daily downloads

Since 2022-10-05 · 1,381 days · wp.org + Plugin Pulse archive

-50% vs prior 30d

Oct 22

Jul 26

30-day downloads

Rolling 30-day volume · peaks are release surges

now · peak 158

Directory rank vs rivals

wp.org popularity rank over time · higher is better · when a rival's line climbs above yours, they've overtaken you

Override Post Title · #17797 Secondary Title · #2543 HeadSpace2 SEO · #3916 Custom Archive Title · #4435

Downloads per 1k installs · 30d

Engagement proxy · release spikes are signal, a long slide is an aging base

Estimated active installs

wp.org reports only “80+”. The real number sits in this band.

tracked estimate

80–90 ≈87

Refined from the date this plugin crossed into its current band.

Install history · since 2022-10-04 · 1,382 observations

Ratings · 0 reviews

Details

Version: 0.2.5
Last updated: 16.6y ago
Added: 2009-09-28 · 16 yrs on WP
Requires WP: 2.7
Tested up to: 2.9.2
Requires PHP: —

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Growth timeline

Install-band crossings we have observed, and how long each band took to outgrow

2026-05-15 70+ → 80+ up after 2 days in band
2026-05-13 80+ → 70+ down after 206 days in band
2025-10-19 90+ → 80+ down after 7 days in band
2025-10-12 80+ → 90+ up after 3 days in band
2025-10-09 90+ → 80+ down after 5 days in band
2025-10-04 80+ → 90+ up after 9 days in band
2025-09-25 90+ → 80+ down after 2 days in band
2025-09-23 80+ → 90+ up after 2 days in band

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Override Post Title with First Content Heading: 80+ active installs, 0.0★ (0 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-07-17. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/override-post-title-with-first-content-heading