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Head & Footer Code

5.0 out of 5 stars. 5.0 51 reviews

Easy add site-wide, category and article specific custom code before the closing </head> and </body>, or after opening <body> tag.

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v1.5.9 200,000+ installs WP 5.2+ PHP 5.6+

By Aleksandar Urošević · Read the readme on WordPress.org

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What you get inside

8 screens

  • Head & Footer Code box in Plugin search results

  • Plugin Settings page (Site-wide, Homepage and Article Post Types)

  • Article specific metabox

  • Example of custom code inserted to HEAD section (site-wide with appended article specific)

  • Example of custom code inserted to BODY and FOOTER sections (site-wide with appended article specific)

  • Category specific metabox

  • Example of custom code inserted to HEAD, BODY and FOOTER section (site-wide with appended category specific)

  • Example of Head & Footer Code column on Pages listing, to identify which pages have set custom code, which one and what mode is selected

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Head & Footer Code box in Plugin search results

Head & Footer Code box in Plugin search results

About this plugin

Head & Footer Code plugin helps you add custom code snippets (JavaScript, CSS, or HTML) to the page even if you are not a programmer. It could be within the <head> (site verification code for various services, custom styles, meta or Webfont link), right after opening <body> (pixel tracking, analytics or heatmap code) or just before closing </body> tag.

Go to Tools → Head & Footer Code in WordPress Dashboard. Insert custom code to HEAD, BODY or FOOTER section (depending on what you have to do).

All magic is done by hooking to WordPress hooks wp_head, wp_footer and wp_body_open.

💡 Trial Head & Footer Code plugin on a free dummy website before you add it on your project: Test It Now!

Various code snippets are supported, including but not limited to:

  • Google Analytics 4
  • Google Tag Manager
  • Google Ads Conversion
  • Lite Analytics
  • Facebook/Meta Pixel
  • Hotjar
  • FullStory
  • Google site verification
  • Bing site verification
  • Yandex site verification
  • Alexa site verification

Homepage in Blog Posts mode

If your WordPress shows the latest blog posts on the homepage, you can also add specific code only for the homepage on Tools → Head & Footer Code (there will be section Head, body and footer code on Homepage in Blog Posts mode)

Article specific code

To insert custom code specific for individual article (post, page or custom post type), use article-specific Metabox while editing post/page/custom post type (check out Screenshots). There choose if that specific code appends to site-wide code defined on Tools → Head & Footer Code, or to replace it.

Category specific code

You can also define a Category specific code on each individual category.

Other taxonomies (tag and custom taxonomy) do not have available their specific code, but for them a Global code is used instead.

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Do you need our support?

If Head & Footer Code does not work on your project, please let us know by raising a new support ticket in the Community Forum and describe what does not works and how to reproduce the issue. We will make sure to resolve the issue as soon as possible.

If you find Head & Footer Code useful for your project, please review plugin.

Features

  • Multisite and PHP 8.5 compatible!
  • Set site-wide custom content for:
    • head page section (before the </head>)
    • body section (after the <body>) – Requires WordPress 5.2!
    • footer page section (before the </body>)
  • Homepage in Blog Posts mode:
    • set homepage specific custom code for head, body and/or footer
    • toggle homepage specific custom code on paged Homepage (page 2, 3, a nd so on)
  • Set article specific custom code for:
    • head page section (before the </head>)
    • body section (after the <body>) – Requires WordPress 5.2!
    • footer page section (before the </body>)
  • Set category specific custom code for head, body and/or footer of the page
  • Choose priority of printed custom code to head/body/footer sections (lower number mean far from </head> and </body> and closer to <body>, higher number means closer to </head> and </body> and farther to <body>)
  • Choose which post types will have enabled article specific head/body/footer fields
  • Choose should article specific head/body/footer code be appended to site-wide code, or will replace site-wide code
  • View on Posts/Pages/Custom Post Types listing if article has defined any article specific custom code
  • Site-wide section is located under Tools > Head & Footer Code
  • If you have set WP_DEBUG constant in wp-config.php to true, you’ll see site-wide and article specific entries in page source code wrapped to comments.
  • [NEW] allow unprivileged user roles Editor and Author to manage article-specific code on single site and multisite (disabled by default)

Data stored in database

General settings (HEAD, BODY, FOOTER global code and priority, Homepage code and behaviour) saves in WordPress option auhfc_settings.
Each post/page/custom post type specific HEAD, BODY and FOOTER code and behaviour saves to post meta _auhfc.
Each category specific HEAD, BODY and FOOTER code and behaviour saves to taxonomy meta _auhfc.

During the Uninstall process all these data has been deleted from the database.
In case you wish to reinstall plugin, DO NOT UNINSTALL IT although Deactivate, then delete the directory /wp-content/plugins/head-footer-code and then reinstall plugin.

Permissions on Multisite WordPress

  1. Access to Global: only Super Admin and Administrator
  2. Access to Article specific: Super Admin, Administrator; optional: Editor and Author
  3. Access to Category specific: only Super Admin and Administrator

Questions

On Network WordPress an Administrator/Editor/Author user getting code validation hint error `Tag is not allowed.`

It’s not a bug, it’s a security measure by WordPress Core.

If you wish to remove hinting errors for Administrator role, make sure you allow unfiltered_html capability for that role (Google is your friend).

Is supported PHP code in code snippets?

As it’s a security risk, the Head & Footer Code does not process PHP code if entered into any plugin field (global or article specific).

Any content added to HFC fields is printed on the front-end as is.

I entered code to BODY section, but nothing outputs on front-end

This feature is implemented since WordPress version 5.2 and requires theme compatibility.

To make sure if theme you use supports wp_body_open hook, open in code editor header.php file from theme you use, and check if right after opening <BODY> tag there is following code (if it does not exists, add it or ask some developer to do that for you):

if ( function_exists( 'wp_body_open' ) ) {
    wp_body_open();
}

Where do I report security bugs found in this plugin?

Please report security bugs found in the source code of the Head & Footer Code plugin through the Patchstack Vulnerability Disclosure Program. The Patchstack team will assist you with verification, CVE assignment, and notify the developers of this plugin.

5.0

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