Aaron Campbell

<p><strong>Headline Booster</strong> helps you instantly improve your blog post titles without leaving the block editor.</p>
<p>Using the OpenAI API, this plugin generates alternative headline suggestions based on your post’s current title and optional excerpt. Each suggestion is automatically scored (0–100) using a simple heuristic that evaluates clarity, structure, length, and keyword strength—making it easy to choose the strongest option.</p>
<h3>✨ Features</h3>
<ul>
<li>Generate 3–5 AI-powered alternative headlines for any post  </li>
<li>Built-in scoring system highlights the most effective option  </li>
<li>“Recommended” badge automatically marks the best title  </li>
<li>Fully integrated into the block editor (Gutenberg)  </li>
<li>Click <strong>Use this title</strong> to instantly replace your post’s headline  </li>
<li>Settings page to enter your OpenAI API key  </li>
<li>Supports multiple tone styles (Neutral, Casual, Formal, Excited, Professional, Humorous, Clickbait, Dramatic)  </li>
<li>Clean, secure REST API implementation  </li>
<li>No analytics, no tracking, no ads</li>
</ul>
<h3>🔐 Privacy & Data Use</h3>
<p>This plugin sends <strong>only</strong> the post title and optional excerpt to the OpenAI API to generate suggestions.<br />
No other site or user data is transmitted or stored externally.</p>
<p>You must provide your own OpenAI API key in <strong>Settings <span aria-hidden="true" class="wp-exclude-emoji">→</span> Headline Booster</strong>.</p>
<h3>External Services</h3>
<p>This plugin connects to the OpenAI API to generate headline suggestions.</p>
<p>It also uses your own OpenAI API key to generate headline suggestions.</p>
<p>When you click the “Generate Variants” button in the post editor, the plugin sends:<br />
– The current post title<br />
– The post excerpt (if set)<br />
– The selected tone<br />
to the OpenAI API at https://api.openai.com/v1/chat/completions in order to request alternative headline suggestions.</p>
<p>You must provide your own OpenAI API key in the plugin settings. The key is stored in your WordPress database and is used only to make requests to the OpenAI API on your behalf.</p>
<p>For more information about OpenAI’s policies, please see:<br />
– Terms of Use: https://openai.com/policies/terms-of-use<br />
– Privacy Policy: https://openai.com/policies/privacy-policy</p>


Headline Booster – AI Title Suggestions

Generate AI-powered headline variants with built-in scoring to improve clarity, SEO, and click-through rate directly inside the WordPress editor.

Jason Funk

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Kai Spriestersbach

<p>Split (A/B) test multiple titles for a post and discover which gets more page views. Great way to increase click through rates.</p>
<h3>TITLE EXPERIMENTS WILL NOT SUPPORTED IN WORDPRESS 5.0+</h3>
<h4>Most people decide to read your article based solely on it’s title.</h4>
<p>Are your titles getting in your way?</p>
<p>Test your titles and discover what your readers find interesting. Get more clicks. Get more revenue.</p>
<p>Use the process of A/B Testing to try different variations of your post titles to get a higher click through rate. It’s very simple to add multiple versions of an article title that will be randomly displayed in any post list. Each time the article is listed it is counted as an impression. Each time the article is visited it is counted as a view. This will easily let you see what percentage of impressions get clicked on for each title.</p>
<p>For more information, check out https://wpexperiments.com/title-experiments/.</p>


Title Experiments Free

Giving 5 stars even if it is discontinued after WordPress 5. Worked good and loved it!

R.I.P. with WordPress 5 and Gutenberg update

Split (A/B) test multiple titles for a post and discover which gets more page views. Great way to increase click through rates.

Headline Booster – AI Title Suggestions vs Title Experiments Free