Google verification meta tag

  • Resolved deray

    (@deray)


    14 years, 8 months ago

    I need to copy/paste a Google verification meta tag into my site’s home page to submit it and start Google Analytics and have no idea how to do that or even access the code. Please make it simple as I am a newbie. Thanks.

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  • Thread Starter deray

    (@deray)

    I see no editor link on the dashboard page.

    ooh….so your appearance tab won’t even open up?

    That makes me wonder if you have a plugin conflict of some sort. I’d try to navigate there after deactivating all plugins temporarily

    Thread Starter deray

    (@deray)

    Will do. Only plugin is shopping cart . ………..the appearance tab opens fine and I’ve downloaded themes etc. Disabled cart plugin – no change. Still just retuns immediately to original screen. No editor, files, code etc.

    Thread Starter deray

    (@deray)

    Wait! I went back and double checked and now have an EDITOR! I’ll make the insert, reactivate the plugin, and hopefully am good to go. Thank you so very, very much!

    Thread Starter deray

    (@deray)

    RVoodoo…. New issue. Google directs insertion in head, before body and shows HTML example. I am somewhat familiar with basic HTML but know nothing about php. Can you translate? I see no “Head” or “Body” just “cfct_header();” near the bottom of the page and google can’t find it. Where on the page should it go?

    header.php should be a file in your editor

    within header.php is a <head> section, and the start of a <body> section

    in between the opening and closing <head> tags there will already be some <meta> stuff

    just add the line there

    Thread Starter deray

    (@deray)

    RVoodoo thanks for hanging with me. I would have probably just given up without your help, but finally got it resolved like this:
    In the theme editor, I opened the header-default.php template NOT the header.php. then about 3/4 down the page I entered it here:
    <?php
    wp_head();
    ?>
    <meta name=”google-site-verification”
    </head>
    and now everything is wonderful. Thanks for your help though. I think the problem came from the weird layout of the theme I am using, Underwater 2.1. Maybe you can share this with someone else if you run into it again.Thanks again.

    Thanks for posting your solution! I added the tag to this thread for that theme to aid folks in searching

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