Insert Tracking Code into WordPress Website?

[RavenManiac]

One of my clients is using a company that does targeted Internet advertising. I have been asked to place the following code between the body tags in my client's home page:

What's the best way to do this?

[Victor Font]

The easiest way is with the Genesis Simple Hooks plugin. Insert your code into the genesis_before hook. This hook executes immediately after the opening body tag.

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[RavenManiac]

Thanks Victor. I'll give it a go.

[RavenManiac]

Hi Victor,

I ended up using the hooks feature within Genesis Extender, a plugin I'm already using, which worked great! Thanks again for your help.

BTW, where is the best place to learn about hooks and what they do?

[Rainmaker2018]

I do like this site for tutorials on how to use the extender. there are plenty out there though.

Genesis Extender Tutorial

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[Victor Font]

Tonya Mork from https://knowthecode.io has some awesome tutorials on WordPress hooks (actions and filters). Understanding WordPress hooks is essential for a WordPress developer.

Here is a site I like: http://genesis.wp-a2z.org/

It lists Genesis actions and filters and where you can find them in the source. Whomever manages that site has been pretty diligent in keeping it up to date.

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[RavenManiac]

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[Victor Font]

It is the iframe causing the problem. I don't know why they would use an iframe for this. All it's doing is calling a url that in turn loads 5 tracking pixels.

You can try adding a class to the iframe and setting the class to display: none;. I don't think that will prevent the tracking pixels from loading, but it might. If it does, tray adding a margin-top: -30px to site-container.

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[RavenManiac]

Thanks, Victor. I appreciate your help. Out of curiosity, and I clearly don't have a clue, how is a tracking script normally inserted into a website? Does it require a container?

Thanks!

[Victor Font]

Tracking scripts are normally inserted into the header or footer. With Genesis, you would use the header or footer script fields on the theme settings page if the script applies to the entire site.

I would never put scripts like that in the HTML section.

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Victor
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[RavenManiac]

For some reason, when I placed the pixel code in the Genesis header field in the theme settings page, I received several console errors. But, surprisingly, when I inserted it into the same area using Extender Pro and a Header hook everything seems to be working fine.

Not sure why one method would work and the other wouldn't unless it has to do where the script is being placed within the header. Thanks again for your help.

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