Archive Title

71 Quality Score

Active Installs

14/30

At roughly 1,000 active installs, Archive Title is a niche plugin with limited reach, though its install count relative to its scope is reasonable.

Update Freshness

20/25

Updated on December 13, 2025, and tested against WordPress 6.9.4, the plugin shows recent and active maintenance with a strong score.

User Rating

15/15

A perfect 100/100 rating from 5 reviews is encouraging, but the small sample size limits how much weight that score carries.

Support Health

8/15

With zero support threads opened and zero resolved, there is no public track record of how the author handles user issues.

WP Compatibility

15/15

Compatible with WordPress 6.0 through 6.9.4 and PHP 7.0 or higher, the plugin scores full marks for compatibility across modern WP setups.

Scores higher than 25% of indexed plugins

About

Provides options to control an archive page title.

Active Installs 1k+

Rating ★★★★★ 5/5

Last Updated 2025-12-13 9:32am GMT

Requires WordPress 6.0+

Tested Up To 6.9.7

Requires PHP 7.0+

✓ No known vulnerabilities

What It Does

Archive Title gives WordPress site owners fine-grained control over how archive page titles (for categories, tags, custom taxonomies, and post types) are displayed. It lets you customize the title format, add prefixes or suffixes, or replace the default archive headings entirely. In practice, it helps you clean up titles on listing pages without editing theme files.

Who It's For

This plugin suits site owners who run content-heavy archives such as news sites, digital magazines, knowledge bases, or community forums where the default WordPress archive titles are generic or unattractive. It is a good fit for non-developers who want a simple settings panel to rebrand archive headings without writing code.

Who Should Skip It

If your theme already provides solid archive title controls or you are comfortable adding a few lines of PHP to your theme's archive template, this plugin adds little value. Sites with only a handful of categories or tags also do not need a dedicated title tool.

The Bottom Line

Archive Title is a small, recently maintained plugin that solves a narrow problem and earns a Quality Score of 74.36/100. Its strong maintenance and compatibility scores are offset by low popularity and an empty support history, so it is a safe pick for simple archive title tweaks but not a substitute for broader taxonomy tools. Try it if the alternatives listed above feel like overkill for your needs.

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Pick this if your main need is registering and managing custom post types and taxonomies, since archive title control is only one part of a much larger toolkit.

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Choose Meta Box when you need a full custom field and meta box framework that can also shape archive behaviour alongside far broader data modelling.

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Choose Post Type Switcher when you need to reassign existing posts to different post types, which is a completely different problem from styling archive titles.

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Pick this if you specifically need to extend category and tag support to Pages rather than customize archive headings.

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