10 Best Custom Archive Titles Alternatives in 2026
Updated September 7, 2026 · Ranked by how closely each plugin matches, from WordPress.org data · How this works
Custom Archive Titles has 2,000+ active installs on WordPress.org. These 10 plugins share its category or its tags on WordPress.org, are actively maintained, and each has at least 100 active installs. They are ordered by how closely they match, not by our opinion.
The 10 closest alternatives to Custom Archive Titles
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Secondary Title
Closest match4.9 (72) 7,000+ active installsSecondary Title is a simple, lightweight plugin that allows you to easily add an alternative title to posts, pages, and/or custom post types.
Shares the heading, title tags on WordPress.org. About 3.5 times the installs, last updated August 5, 2026.
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4.1 (21) 10,000+ active installsAdd subtitles (subheadings) to your pages, posts or custom post types.
Shares the title tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, last updated March 5, 2026.
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4.8 (53) 3,000+ active installsAdd subtitles into your WordPress posts, pages, custom post types, and themes. No coding required. Simply activate Subtitles and you're ready.
Shares the title tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, no update since August 29, 2017.
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5.0 (21) 3,000+ active installsAdds back the missing "title" field in the Insert/Edit URL box in WordPress 4.2
Shares the title tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, no update since November 28, 2017.
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4.9 (26) 10,000+ active installsВерсия сайта для слабовидящих.
Shares the title tag on WordPress.org. About 5 times the installs, no update since September 1, 2021.
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4.7 (20) 4,000+ active installsSet a limit for WooCommerce product titles at the frontend of your shop.
Shares the title tag on WordPress.org. About 2 times the installs, last updated October 21, 2025.
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4.7 (30) 6,000+ active installsSimple Yearly Archive is a rather neat and simple Wordpress plugin that allows you to display your archives in a year-based list.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, last updated 23 days ago.
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4.8 (45) 3,000+ active installsA JS widget (can be used in posts) for displaying an archive list with some effects.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. About 1.5 times the installs, last updated April 3, 2026.
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4.5 (151) 6,000+ active installsAuto Excerpt for your posts on home, search and archive pages. Customize Read More button and thumbnail image. Easy to configure and have a lot of opt …
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. About 3 times the installs, no update since April 16, 2024.
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4.9 (36) 5,000+ active installsUse an "Archived" status to unpublish content without having to trash it.
Shares the archive tag on WordPress.org. About 2.5 times the installs, last updated February 17, 2026.
Switching from Custom Archive Titles: common questions
What is the best alternative to Custom Archive Titles?
Secondary Title is the closest match: it shares the same WordPress.org tags and has 7,000+ active installs with a 4.9 out of 5 rating.
Which Custom Archive Titles alternative has the most users?
WP Subtitle, with 10,000+ active installs reported by WordPress.org.
Which Custom Archive Titles alternative is rated highest?
Secondary Title, rated 4.9 out of 5 by 72 reviewers. Only plugins with at least 50 reviews are counted.
Are these Custom Archive Titles alternatives free?
Every plugin listed here is free to install from WordPress.org. Where WordPress.org marks a plugin as commercial, the developer also sells a paid version or add-ons, and that is shown on each plugin.
How are alternatives chosen?
Automatically, from WordPress.org data: plugins that share a category top 10 with Custom Archive Titles score highest, then plugins that appear in the same WordPress.org rankings, then plugins with the same tags, weighted so rare tags count more than common ones. Plugins by the same author and plugins rated under 4.0 are left out.
How we choose these alternatives
Nothing on this page is picked by hand. Every day we walk the whole WordPress.org directory, then score every plugin against Custom Archive Titles on three signals: sharing a category top 10 counts most, then appearing in the same WordPress.org rankings, then carrying the same tags, with rare tags counting for more than common ones like "wordpress". Plugins by the same author are excluded, so an author's own add-ons cannot fill the list, and so is anything rated below 4.0 or with fewer than 100 active installs. The ten highest scores are what you see, in that order. Full methodology.
The bottom line
Secondary Title is the closest match to Custom Archive Titles by the data we track, and WP Subtitle has the widest reach with 10,000+ active installs. Simple Yearly Archive shipped the most recent release, on August 15, 2026. The list is rebuilt every day from WordPress.org, so a plugin that stops being maintained drops out on its own.
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