diff --git a/LinkTitles.body.php b/LinkTitles.body.php
index 63d8b32..79b22ed 100755
--- a/LinkTitles.body.php
+++ b/LinkTitles.body.php
@@ -76,12 +76,14 @@
 			global $wgLinkTitlesParseHeadings;
 			global $wgLinkTitlesBlackList;
 			global $wgLinkTitlesSkipTemplates;
+			global $wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly;
 
 			// To prevent adding self-references, we now
 			// extract the current page's title.
 			$myTitle = $article->getTitle()->getText();
 
 			( $wgLinkTitlesPreferShortTitles ) ? $sort_order = 'ASC' : $sort_order = 'DESC';
+			( $wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly ) ? $limit = 1 : $limit = -1;
 
 			if ( $wgLinkTitlesSkipTemplates )
 			{
@@ -137,9 +139,11 @@
 					$arr = preg_split( $delimiter, $text, -1, PREG_SPLIT_DELIM_CAPTURE );
 					// dump( $arr );
 					$safeTitle = str_replace( '/', '\/', $title );
-					for ( $i = 0; $i < count( $arr ); $i+=2 ) {
+					( $wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly ) ? $loopLimit = 1 : $loopLimit = count( $arr );
+					for ( $i = 0; $i < $loopLimit; $i+=2 ) {
 						// even indexes will point to text that is not enclosed by brackets
-						$arr[$i] = preg_replace( '/(?<![\:\.\@\/\?\&])\b(' . $safeTitle . ')\b/i', '[[$1]]', $arr[$i] );
+						$arr[$i] = preg_replace( '/(?<![\:\.\@\/\?\&])\b(' . $safeTitle . ')\b/i', 
+							'[[$1]]', $arr[$i], $limit );
 					};
 					$text = implode( '', $arr );
 				}; // if $title != $myTitle
diff --git a/LinkTitles.php b/LinkTitles.php
index 9036ce5..4de27ee 100755
--- a/LinkTitles.php
+++ b/LinkTitles.php
@@ -39,13 +39,14 @@
 	$wgLinkTitlesParseOnRender = false;
 	$wgLinkTitlesSkipTemplates = false;
 	$wgLinkTitlesBlackList = array();
+	$wgLinkTitlesFirstOnly = false;
 
   $wgExtensionCredits['parserhook'][] = array(
     'path'           => __FILE__,
     'name'           => 'LinkTitles',
     'author'         => '[http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/User:Bovender Daniel Kraus]', 
     'url'            => 'http://www.mediawiki.org/wiki/Extension:LinkTitles',
-    'version'        => '1.4.0',
+    'version'        => '1.5.0',
     'descriptionmsg' => 'linktitles-desc'
     );
 
diff --git a/NEWS b/NEWS
index 06401ed..8ccf705 100644
--- a/NEWS
+++ b/NEWS
@@ -1,3 +1,6 @@
+LinkTitles 1.5.0: 2012-12-11
+* Added new option to link only the first occurrence of a page title.
+
 LinkTitles 1.4.0: 2012-10-09
 * Added new option to skip template variables.
 
diff --git a/release/LinkTitles-1.5.0.tar.gz b/release/LinkTitles-1.5.0.tar.gz
new file mode 100644
index 0000000..f4d5b89
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