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Eli Hanna

Optimize Your Titles with the Short Title Block
Introducing the Short Title Block plugin, a must-have tool for WordPress developers, designers, and content marketers looking to optimize their website’s user experience without sacrificing SEO performance.
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The Problem
In the world of content creation, a blog post title must serve two masters with conflicting objectives. Its primary role is to clearly communicate to readers and search engines what the post is about. However, when long, keyword-rich titles are displayed on archive pages or in query loops, they are too long, dare I say clunky, and what helps a search engine or reader isn’t likely to engage or entice visitors to click through.
The Solution
The Short Title Block plugin resolves this conflict by giving you the flexibility to add a short, enticing title to posts. This short title can be used on archive pages and in query loops.
Using a short title in this way will significantly improve click-through rates and overall engagement in query loops and on archive pages without compromising the primary purpose of your post titles.
The plugin also adds an additional control to the Title block that lets you choose the short title.
But what happens if you don’t add a Short Title to your post?
No worries. The plugin has logic in place to use the default title if the Short Title is not available.
Review the screenshot for detailed “How-To” instructions for the plugin.
Short Title Block – Features and Benefits
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<li>Dual-Title Functionality: Easily add a short title in addition to your primary title—the ideal use case is archive pages and query loops.</li>
<li>Enhanced Click-Through Rates: Craft short titles that captivate and encourage visitors to explore your content further.</li>
<li>Improved User Experience: You no longer need to compromise on the default title’s ability to communicate the purpose of post or page content to readers or search engines to accommodate the limited space available in the archive or query loop cards.</li>
<li>SEO Optimization: Maintain clear, keyword-rich primary titles for search engine indexing while utilizing short titles for improved user engagement.</li>
<li>Conditional Logic: If a short title isn’t available, the default title will automatically be used, ensuring consistent display without additional effort.</li>
</ul>
Upgrade your WordPress site with the Short Title Block plugin and experience the perfect balance between clarity and engagement in your titles.
Transform how your content is presented and drive more engagement.

Short Title Block – Dual Post Titles for Better UX and SEO Performance

Add a second short and engaging post title for archive pages and in query loops, to boost click-through rates and engagement

Pierre Lannoy

Hosterra

Truthful user experience and browsing performances monitoring.
Vibes is a robust user experience and browsing performances monitoring solution that analyzes perceived performances from users’ viewpoint.
It is fully autonomous – does not rely on external services and does not require any API keys, works on any type of hosting and in any type of environment – including staging, intranets or password protected sites.
By continuously monitoring user experience, Vibes can report:
<ul>
<li>navigation performance KPIs per pages – like latency, redirections, browser caching hit rates, etc.;</li>
<li>network timelines as if you were in the dev tools of your users’ browsers;</li>
<li>resources details – like initiators, protocols, mime types, average sizes, etc.;</li>
<li>Web Vitals: LCP, FID, CLS, FCP and TTFB.</li>
</ul>
It can segment all this data per:
<ul>
<li>user type (anonymous vs. authenticated);</li>
<li>channel (frontend vs. backend);</li>
<li>country (requires the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/ip-locator/" rel="ugc">IP Locator</a> plugin);</li>
<li>device classes and types (requires the free <a href="https://wordpress.org/plugins/device-detector/" rel="ugc">Device Detector</a> plugin).</li>
</ul>
Vibes supports multisite report delegation (see FAQ).
Vibes supports WP-CLI commands to:
<ul>
<li>display (past or current) performances signals in console – see <code>wp help vibes tail</code> for details;</li>
<li>toggle on/off main settings – see <code>wp help vibes settings</code> for details.</li>
</ul>
For a full help on WP-CLI commands in Vibes, please <a href="https://perfops.one/vibes-wpcli" rel="nofollow ugc">read this guide</a>.
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Vibes is part of <a href="https://perfops.one/" rel="nofollow ugc">PerfOps One</a>, a suite of free and open source WordPress plugins dedicated to observability and operations performance.
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Vibes is a free and open source plugin for WordPress. It integrates many other free and open source works (as-is or modified). Please, see ‘about’ tab in the plugin settings to see the details.
<h4>Support</h4>
This plugin is free and provided without warranty of any kind. Use it at your own risk, I’m not responsible for any improper use of this plugin, nor for any damage it might cause to your site. Always backup all your data before installing a new plugin.
Anyway, I’ll be glad to help you if you encounter issues when using this plugin. Please read carefully the FAQ at the bottom of this page before requesting support.
<h4>Donation</h4>
If you like this plugin or find it useful and want to thank me for the work done, please consider making a donation to <a href="https://www.laquadrature.net/en" rel="nofollow ugc">La Quadrature Du Net</a> or the <a href="https://www.eff.org/" rel="nofollow ugc">Electronic Frontier Foundation</a> which are advocacy groups defending the rights and freedoms of citizens on the Internet. By supporting them, you help the daily actions they perform to defend our fundamental freedoms!

Vibes

Great plugin

Truthful user experience and browsing performances monitoring.

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