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SEO Header Plugin

SEO Header plugin allows you to change
the heading of the page without
changing the page title.

This is especially useful if you want to use a short term for the page navigation and a long headline. For example, when using Wordpress as a standard CMS, you may set your home page to “Home” in your wordpress settings. This works out well because in the wordpress page navigation, you have a link to your home page titled “Home”.

*********************Plugin Issue*************************

The newest version of this plugin changes the header of the navigation title on the actual page. For example, if you change your “Home” page to “Blue Widgets”, while your site navigation will show “Home”. However, if you are on the “Home” page, the navigation will show “Blue Widgets”. This is not a big issue, unless you use a really long page title and it breaks your navigation. I will create a fix for this and release version 1.3 ASAP.

But the problem is, that the word “Home” in your headline (and your headline should be an h1 tag), does not help your SEO nor does it give the reader a great message.

I have used the plugin on this page to change the headline from “SEO Header Plugin” to “A Plugin For SEO Headers”.

For example, all though the name of the home page of my site is “Home”, I have used “SEO Internet Marketing Services Consultant” as my headline with this plugin.

I built this plugin based upon this Wordpress Hack provided by Scott Hendison and Heather Barger. The hack does require an edit to your template files, however this plugin does not.

Usually, I would use another template hack to change my h1 headline on certain pages, but Heather’s and Scott’s method was the best method.

How it works

While editing a post or page, simply change the headline by adding a custom meta description with the term SEO_heading:

seoheadersscreenshot

I have tested this plugin with Wordpress 2.7.

Download The File

To install the plugin, upload the folder to your plugin directory and activate it. Once it is activated, it is ready to use.

Download SEO Headers Plugin

Any feedback is appreciated.

Author: Jason

33 Comments

Khaled from Number plates
February 6, 2009

Hi many thanks for the link to the plugin, couldnt get it to work though got an error message.

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘*’ on line 26

baron
February 7, 2009

hi. Thanks for plugin

perfect.

Regards

Jason
February 9, 2009

@Baron, I am glad you find it useful.

@Khaled, try to download the most recent version from this site. It may be that you downloaded a version where I had an extra “*” as a comment when I added the GPL information for wordpress.org. If your problem is not resolved, let me know and I will take a look at the version you have to correct the problem. Thanks for the heads up.

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steve from Credit Card Debt Reduction
February 13, 2009

Thanks a bunch been looking for exactly something like this for a while.

Heather
February 15, 2009

Hi Jason,

Thank you for the comment at seoautomatic.com on the core tweaks plugin and the credit you gave on the H1 hack.

We do want to include this in the next release of the core tweaks, so would you mind sending an email when you release the 1.3 version. I see where you are coming from with the issue on the is_home() compared to is_page(). Setting the home page has become a constant for us.

It will probably be another week before I can work on the next release so if you get the next version ready, that would be great. Then after that, if you use a mailing list, please feel free to add the email dzynit@searchcommander.com to notify of any new releases or new plugins you think would be useful in the core tweaks. I’ll gladly keep them updated in the plugin.

Thanks much,
Heather

Jason
February 17, 2009

Heather, I appreciate your comment and I will let you know when I get the plugin updated.

Nick from Intranet Development
April 30, 2009

I have never heard of this plug in. I’m migrating over to firefox and am just now taking advantage of the great plug ins.

Interesting tool, not necessarily black hat; but some will argue that it is not white hat. nevertheless a very useful tool. I have been collecting the best wordpress plugins to work with the site setup I use using thesis theme and this is going into the list. I have approx’ 25 and can hit page #1 in Google in a very fast time

Jason
May 12, 2009

I am not really sure what you mean about this not being white hat. Controlling your title tag and h1 tag is certainly not a violation of Google’s terms of service.

Jamie from Varicose Veins
May 25, 2009

This looks like a really cool plugin. Thanks will try it on WP now.

Free software
May 28, 2009

This is not black SEO hack. Every site can be changed as you wish - title, h1, h2 etc. I don’t see problems here. Thank you Jason !

Steve
May 31, 2009

I installed the plugin, which sounds great, onto my wordpress 2.7.1 blog and received this fatal error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘*’ in /home/practih5/public_html/blog/wp-content/plugins/SEO Headers/index.php on line 26

The only file that came in the download after unzipping was index.php. Is that right?

Thanks for your help.

steve@studioHDV.com

bethany from rosacea makeup
June 3, 2009

I totally appreciate being able to change the page heading without changing the title — awesome.

Graham from LCD Enclosures
June 4, 2009

Brilliant tool and well done on creating it. All I need now is somethang that can rotate my keywords for different pages then I am sorted.

Graham Gallagher.
Anti Ligature TV enclosures.

Fernando from peear.com
June 20, 2009

Nice plugin, It can be really usefull for SEO.

Bank
June 22, 2009

Interesting tool, not necessarily black hat; but some will argue that it is not white hat.

Matt
June 23, 2009

I installed used the plugin, which sounds great, onto my wordpress 2.7.1 blog and received this fatal error message:

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘*’ in /nfs/c03/h03/mnt/54880/domains/ultra-low-sulfur-diesel-fuel.com/html/wp-content/plugins/SEO Headers/index.php on line 26.

Can you please email me a copy that works. It is the download issue.

Thanks for your help.

Translation Agency
June 24, 2009

Wow this plugin look really cool!I will try it out.

Bronx
June 24, 2009

Great tool that I have been needing for a while now. Thx for the info.

Noah from Internet Advertising
July 1, 2009

Awesome stuff Jason! Ya know, sometimes I forget to check for plugins that do this kind of stuff when I’m mumbling to myself about wanting such a feature in wordpress. The other day I was working on a site and was griping about how I wanted the title and header to be different, but fool that I was I didn’t bother acting on that and didn’t try to find something to fix it. This plugin looks to completely solve that issue so that I never have to whine about it again. Thanks! :)

brkblx
July 7, 2009

i used it 2 but when i try to activate the plug in , received the same error msg that says;

Parse error: syntax error, unexpected ‘*’ in /mnt/local/home/burax/brkblx.com/wp-content/plugins/SEO Headers/index.php on line 26

can u mail me 2 how to solve the problem?
i installed the latest vers.

Fernando from Templates
July 10, 2009

I usualy use Joomla but I have some blogs and I try use it. It can change a lot SERP of websites.

James from 32 LCD TV
July 13, 2009

How does this differ from the All in One SEO plugin? SEO Header looks good and I’ll give it a shot on one of my blogs. Is it compatible with all versions of WP? I’m runing 2.7.

Thomas Hosley from Size Trainer
July 14, 2009

It is best if you could develop a plugin which would put title headlines in H1 tag instead of something in the headers! i think it will be a better option at seo to have page titles within the H1 tag!

Crap
July 17, 2009

what crap is this, i tried activating this plug in, but doesn’t work

{I have used the plugin on this page to change the headline from “SEO Header Plugin” to “A Plugin For SEO Headers”. }

check again with your eyes wide open and see both (title and heading) are same “SEO Header Plugin”

Robert
July 17, 2009

Thanks for the the useful stuff, i truly appreciate it Jason.

Jason
July 17, 2009

This plugin is not currently not activated…as this page says…there is an issue…use at your own risk

Sue
July 22, 2009

This is a very helpful tool for SEO. Not always do you want the page title to match the article title.

Marty C
July 27, 2009

This is a great plugin, have been using it for a few weeks now - highly recommended!

Momonga
August 24, 2009

Great way to fine tune your h1 tags

Jeannette = Good job with the hyperlink. I’m still a newbie too and I’m always learning something new and saying to myself, “Now why didn’t someone teach me that.” Technocrats create obstacles to every day folks using new technologies but techno-advocates like me (and hopefully you) build bridges of understandability between the average person and new technology!

Mags from Wordpress SEO
January 31, 2010

Thanks for this plug-in. I have tested it and it works really well. I will write an article about 10 best SEO plugins and will include this one as well. Thanks!

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