Do you have a WordPress blog and at times have titles that are a little long? Are there times when a sub heading could be a nice addition? If so then there is a little trick to modifying your post’s title that you may find useful.

This post has a modified title. Because of the way the style sheet is setup, the various H tags act very differently to each other. You could add your own styles to the style sheet if you knew how (and I will write about that in another post), or you could just modify the titles when you need to.

I wrote in an earlier post about modifying H tags within a post. A similar set of commands can be used to great effect in the title. In the title to this post I have used the command:

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When doing it yourself, be sure to replace the square brackets with the code placeholder tags <>. You can also use the BR tag to wrap the text to a new line when you need to.

You will need to play around with your H tags to see what sort of effects you get. What it is does do is create a different style of heading for your post titles. It can certainly make them look more interesting.

A word of caution – if you have the post url rewrite on so that the post title is written to the url, you want to consider using a plugin like the Platinum SEO Pack or similar that allows you to rewrite the title. You can then strip the code away for a clean url – otherwise, you are likely to see some strange url’s for your pages – certainly not SEO friendly urls.