WordPress bundle Header and Footer Scripts

in this video you’ll learn how to add code to WordPress header or footer area a lot of times different web sites like Pinterest or Google will ask you to add pieces of code to your head or area so let me show you a quick way that you can add it to your website first thing you want to do is you want to login to your WordPress dashboard then from here we want to scroll down to the plugins area and we want to click add new we’re going to add a very simple plug into your website and don’t worry it won’t bug you upside-down or anything it just makes it super easy for you to add the header or footer code like you need to from the search area let’s go ahead and type and insert header and footer and Footers and this is the one we want this is created and maintained by wpbeginner that has us do you want to install it and then once it’s installed you want to hang around and go ahead and make sure that you click activate as well once it’s activated you’ll get a message saying that it’s been installed and we can either click here to

or if you ever need to come back to it you can go down to settings insert headers and Footers to configure now from here you’ll have to decide where the software that you’re installing it usually a JavaScript where they’re asking you to put it if they’re wanting you to put in the header then you can put it up here if they want to if they want you to put it just before the body closing then that goes down here so let me quickly show you how you can do that for instance if you want to install Pinterest pins on your site then you have to have this bit of script installed throughout your website so I’m just going to grab this and this is just for an example if you really need to activate Pinterest on your site than you can watch our video on how to do that here so I’m going to grab this Petticoat you see that it’s asking us to do it just before the closing body tag so that means I want to put it in my Footers area I’m going to highlight this and copy

and then we’ll head back over but in these groups in the Footers right click and paste that and now that that’s pasted now it’s available on all of my sight the other two methods require changing out your theme and so it’s a little bit difficult to maintain for instance if you’re doing it in the theme you’ll have to go into header and footer and actually change those pieces of code some other themes provide you with an area that you can fill out but the problem with these two methods is if you ever change out your theme then this Petticoat is no longer on your site and might break whatever it is that you’re trying to use and that is why we recommend using the insert headers and Footers which is a very simple and easy to use plug in that won’t back down your sight just a super easy way to add header and footer code into your WordPress website and thanks for watching