Headline Booster helps you instantly improve your blog post titles without leaving the block editor.
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.
✨ Features
- Generate 3–5 AI-powered alternative headlines for any post
- Built-in scoring system highlights the most effective option
- “Recommended” badge automatically marks the best title
- Fully integrated into the block editor (Gutenberg)
- Click Use this title to instantly replace your post’s headline
- Settings page to enter your OpenAI API key
- Supports multiple tone styles (Neutral, Casual, Formal, Excited, Professional, Humorous, Clickbait, Dramatic)
- Clean, secure REST API implementation
- No analytics, no tracking, no ads
🔐 Privacy & Data Use
This plugin sends
only the post title and optional excerpt to the OpenAI API to generate suggestions.\
No other site or user data is transmitted or stored externally.
You must provide your own OpenAI API key in
Settings → Headline Booster.
1.0.7
- Automatically retry an SSL connection reset once after a short delay. Certificate validation remains enabled; timeouts and API errors are not retried.
- Updated WordPress compatibility metadata following user testing on WordPress 7.1.3.
1.0.6
- Replaced gpt-4o-mini with gpt-6-luna and bounded completion tokens.
- Updated the editor panel to use wp.editor on WordPress 6.6 and later, retaining the older API on WordPress 6.0–6.5.
- Fixed optional excerpt handling and preserved numbers at the start of headlines.
- Rejected incomplete model output and returned an error status for malformed successful responses.
1.0.5
- Updated all plugin prefixes, class names, option keys, constants, and JavaScript globals to use a unique and fully namespaced
headline_booster_aits_ prefix as required by WordPress.org review guidelines.
- Replaced short
hb_* identifiers with fully prefixed versions to prevent naming conflicts.
- Updated localized JavaScript global from
HeadlineBoosterSettings to HBAITSSettings.
- Improved internal file structure and naming consistency for better long-term maintainability.
- Cleaned up assets and removed directory-only images from plugin zip as requested by reviewers.
- General code cleanup and preparation for WordPress.org approval.
1.0.4
Plugin check compliance and text domain alignment for
wp.org slug
1.0.0
Initial release.