Unique Headers

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Share of active installs on each version of this plugin · 44% run the current release. Green is the current release; a big slice on older versions is a user base that has stopped updating.

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

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1. ★★★★★ italliance

   2.3y ago

   Super easy to use. Thank you for developing this.

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2. ★★★★★ SSVapes

   2.8y ago

   works perfectly. the shortcodes could be better

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3. ★★★★★ laserulm

   3.7y ago

   thx

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4. ★★★★★ Jeffrey S. Whitmore

   3.9y ago

   Why isn’t it part of default? It took me a month to make a bunch of header images and put them in all my old posts. It was awesome! No sarcasm. This made my posts so much better.

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5. ★★★★★ singingfalls

   4.6y ago

   Easy to use. A real asset to site customization. My gratitude for it’s production.

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6. ★★★★★ fureniku

   5.2y ago

   The plugin does technically do its job of allowing a unique header per page. However, it offers absolutely no guidelines on how your base image should be in terms of size or aspect ratio, and no cropping or positioning tools, leaving you to trial and error to try and get an image that actually shows up correctly with your theme. It’s very frustrating and time consuming, but does look good once finished.

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7. ★★★★★ langerent

   5.4y ago

   It was a great plug in but it made my site crash (500 Error) once I updated to WordPress 5.7. Once I uninstalled the plug in, the site worked normally again. Thanks

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8. ★★★★★ comueller

   5.4y ago

   Perfect Tool. It works very well. This topic was modified 1 year, 8 months ago by comueller.

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Recent releases and news for this plugin

1. 2026-05-10 Version 2.1.3 Resolved issue where custom header images would not display on WooCommerce product category pages due to taxonomy caching at plugin init time Restored ability to upload video headers in the customizer 2.1.3
2. 2026-05-08 Version 2.1.2 Fix: Removed strict string type declarations from postHeaderImageFilter and taxonomyHeaderImageFilter to prevent TypeError when WordPress Customizer passes an array through the theme_mod_header_image filter 2.1.2
3. 2026-05-07 Version 2.1.1 Fixing version number Shortening readme description to meet WordPress.org requirements 2.1.1
4. 2026-05-07 Version 2.1 Fixed PSR-4 container namespacing bug 2.1
5. 2026-05-01 Version 2.0.1 CI: restricted PHP version matrix to 8.4 and 8.5 CI: fixed lock file resolution issue for different PHP versions Docs: added plugin longevity note (since 2012, 20,000+ sites) Docs: reorganized README sections for better 2.0.1
6. 2026-05-01 Version 2.0 Major architectural overhaul: migrated to PSR-4 autoloading with Composer and Inpsyde Modularity Replaced legacy classes with AdminModule, DisplayModule, and AttachmentHelper service Rewrote admin JavaScript as ES6 class 2.0

Automated install-time checks, tested on PHP 8.1.12 · WP 6.3.1

Translated into 106 languages, 8 at 90% or more

Plus 82 more locales with partial translations.

Growth timeline

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

1. 2026-06-12 20K+ → 10K+ down after 1156 days in tier
2. 2023-04-13 30K+ → 20K+ down after 2 days in tier
3. 2023-04-11 20K+ → 30K+ up after 1 days in tier
4. 2023-04-10 30K+ → 20K+ down

Competes with

The plugins that solve the same job, ranked by shared tags then reach, closest match first. The letter on the right is each plugin's health grade (A best, F worst).

• Media Deduper 9K+ installs · 3.9★ · 2 shared tags B
• WP Header Images 5K+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags C
• WP Attachments 3K+ installs · 4.4★ · 2 shared tags B
• F4 Media Taxonomies 1K+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags A
• U Unattach 900+ installs · 4.5★ · 2 shared tags D
• M Media Vault 800+ installs · 4.3★ · 2 shared tags D

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Unique Headers: 10K+ active installs, 4.9★ (160 reviews). Plugin Pulse (WP Mayor), as of 2026-08-29. https://plugins.wpmayor.com/plugin/unique-headers